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.

• approving officer’s statement to defendant, “I want to give you the opportunity today to get out in front of this”
• police did not improperly imply that they had evidence they did not when they asked if there was \any reason\ they might find defendant's fingerprints on evidence
• detective's nonhostile tone supports voluntariness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Andrade
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-06-25· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Durand
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-10-07· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Spray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-03-13· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Monroe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-08-19· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Issa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-07-18· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Fernandes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-02-02· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-04-17· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-11-09· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Lugo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-03-18· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Alcequiecz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-06-13· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Elliott
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-06-17· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Botelho
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-08-10· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Cooley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-07-13· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-01-25· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-07-17
• Commonwealth v. Lavin
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-10-30
• Commonwealth v. Larocque
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-10-20
• Commonwealth v. St. Pierre
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-11-26
• Commonwealth v. David Roman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-03-05
• Commonwealth v. Jose M. Shaw
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2025-07-23

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Miller v. Pate
  Supreme Court· 1967-02-13· cited 487×
• Commonwealth v. Flebotte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-03-21· cited 396×
• Commonwealth v. Kozec
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-03-24· cited 348×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-01-08· cited 225×
• Commonwealth v. Jimenez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-12-12· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Meehan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-19· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Storey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-06-25· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Selby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-26· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Amirault
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-06· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Mandile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-04-23· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Magee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-08-01· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Kater
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-08-30· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Pytou Heang
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-02-15· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Lamrini
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-09· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Benoit
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-06· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Robertson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-12-04· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Souza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-12-11· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Montez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-02-28· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Sylvia
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-03-02· cited 62×