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.

• larceny instruction not warranted where no evidence offered that killing occurred first and then defendant decided to remove money from victim’s body
• “Robbery includes all the elements of larceny and in addition requires that force and violence be used against the victim or that the victim be put in fear”
• “Larceny is the unlawful taking and carrying away of the personal property of another with the specific intent to deprive the person of the property permanently”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Walden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-05-30· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Carrion
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-04-17· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Conceicao
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-02-28· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. McLeod
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-05-08· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Mavredakis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-03-07· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Mills
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-22· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Brady
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-05· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Cameron
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-29· cited 66×
• State v. Francis
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-02-10· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Christian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-01-14· cited 58×
• Mucktaru Kemokai v. U.S. Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 2023-10-02· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Lee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-05-05· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-05-09· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Doucette
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-12-15· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-09-16· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Griffith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-09· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Dickinson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-05-06· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Dellamano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-10-11· cited 26×
• Lewis H. Dickerson v. Arthur Latessa
  First Circuit· 1989-04-25· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Norman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-03-06· cited 25×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-24· cited 198×
• Gray v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-01-16· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Caine
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-11-13· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Santo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-05-23· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Conroy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1956-03-28· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Novicki
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-06-29· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-03-11· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Costa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-11-01· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. McKay
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-03-07· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Maguire
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-07-12· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. McCarthy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1964-07-13· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-06-27· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-30· cited 25×
• People v. Dillard
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-06-02· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Skalberg
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1955-11-29· cited 9×