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.

• beer bottle broken over victim's head insufficient evidence of specific intent to maim in part because injuries were product of single blow during fight
• evidence insufficient to support conviction of mayhem where entire attack lasted no more than ninety seconds, and injuries resulted from single strike to victim’s head with beer bottle that was intact before impact
• insufficient evidence of an intent to maim “based on a single strike with a beer bottle in the midst of a brief bar fight and without any other evidence of the attacker’s intent,” where the fact that the bottle broke on impact contributed to the severity of the victim’s injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ogden O.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-04-17· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Hampton
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-07-18· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Forbes
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2014-08-26· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Hap Lay
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-02-14· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. McPherson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-04-17· cited 4×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Commonwealth v. Rosario
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-12-30· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Nickerson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-04-30· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-08-14· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-07-13· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Cleary
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-08-28· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Parkes
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-02-15· cited 3×