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.

• discussing joint venture of murder and assault and battery by means of dangerous weapon
• “[t]he judge was not required to reinstruct on intoxication when he responded to the jury’s request during deliberations for reinstruction on malice aforethought”
• sufficient evidence of malice where defendant punched and kicked victim, watched joint venturer stab victim, and kicked victim in face as victim lay on floor dying
• where death caused by “stab wounds with blunt trauma injury,” defendant who kicked but did not stab could be guilty as both principal and joint venturer
• both inferring malice from physical violence against unresponsive victims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wolinski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-04-13· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Norris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-05-04· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Ward
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-12-17· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Pimental
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-08-03· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Rice
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-04-08· cited 10×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Latimore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-01-15· cited 357×
• Commonwealth v. Gaulden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-05-06· cited 89×
• Osborne v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-05-15· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Semedo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-05-22· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Plunkett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-05-13· cited 51×