Commonwealth v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• violation of defendant’s right of confrontation to limit cross-examination because alleged victim feared, or did not wish to answer, questions
• violation of art. 12 and Sixth Amendment to limit cross-examination because alleged victim feared, or did not desire to answer, questions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

61 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Cinelli
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-16· cited 179×
• Commonwealth v. St. Pierre
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-30· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Amirault
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-06· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Franklin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-10-21· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. LaCorte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-18· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Swenson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-06-30· cited 89×
• Nelson v. Commissioner of Correction
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-11-10· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Clifford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-01-27· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Bergstrom
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-06-13· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Amral
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-05-29· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Douzanis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-21· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Fazio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-06-20· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Fielding
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-09-15· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Michel
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-04-22· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-03-18· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Lugo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-01-25· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Francis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-08-22· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-02-02· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Kirouac
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-08-10· cited 40×
• State v. Haverty
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-06-24· cited 39×

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• Roviaro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-03-25· cited 3,599×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• Kastigar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 2,510×
• Branzburg v. Hayes
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 2,202×
• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• United States v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 1,806×
• McCray v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-24· cited 1,521×
• Alford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-02-24· cited 1,352×
• Moore v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-10-10· cited 1,226×
• Smith v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-01-29· cited 763×
• Scher v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1938-12-05· cited 370×
• United States v. James Vincent Keogh
  Second Circuit· 1968-02-02· cited 327×
• United States v. John Cardillo, Lawrence Harris, Ralph Kaminsky, John Knapp, Louis Margolis, and Louis Piselli
  Second Circuit· 1963-04-24· cited 261×
• Commonwealth v. Balliro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-07-02· cited 117×
• United States v. Richard Alston
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-06-01· cited 97×
• United States v. Palermo
  Seventh Circuit· 1969-04-03· cited 93×