Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/12/2015
Commonwealth v. Johnson
Citations
- 470 Mass. 389
- 22 N.E.3d 155
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- declining to find abuse of discretion in judge’s denial of request for eyewitness identification instruction where there was no positive eyewitness identification and “no other eyewitness testimony that significantly incriminated the defendant”
- witness unable to identify defendant in lineup eighteen days after crime, by which time defendant had changed his hairstyle
- no identification instruction necessary where no \positive or partial identification of [the defendant]\
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Gants, Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Duffly, Lenk, Hines
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9 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. BryantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-07-30· cited 34×
- Smiley v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-03-09· cited 13×
- Commonwealth v. CoatesMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-07-15· cited 13×
- Commonwealth v. SnyderMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-09-08· cited 8×
- Commonwealth v. NavarroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-05-05· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. RichardsonMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-07-30· cited 1×
- Commonwealth v. ReedMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-10-06
- Commonwealth v. FrancoisMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-07-02
- Commonwealth v. FisherMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2023-09-20
Cites
11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-06-21· cited 195×
- Commonwealth v. Silva-SantiagoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-05-15· cited 137×
- Commonwealth v. CruzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-12-21· cited 110×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-09· cited 88×
- Commonwealth v. GomesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-01-12· cited 70×
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-07-01· cited 67×
- Commonwealth v. WatsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-10-29· cited 53×
- Commonwealth v. WalkerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-08-09· cited 37×
- Commonwealth v. FranklinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-07-16· cited 23×
- Commonwealth v. BourgeoisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-02-08· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-03-19· cited 11×
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