Commonwealth v. Jones

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \a statute is to be construed where fairly possible so as to avoid constitutional questions\ [citation omitted]
• prior version of § 28 contained implied element of knowledge [or belief] that recipient was minor
• \a statute is to be construed where fairly possible so as to avoid constitutional questions\ [citation omitted]
• statutes are to be construed \where fairly possible so as to avoid constitutional questions\ [citation omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lucas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-08-06· cited 18×
• In re Chapman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-05-16· cited 13×
• BURLINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT v. ROBERT M. HAGOPIAN.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2022-02-22· cited 3×
• ADOPTION OF ARLENE.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2022-06-30· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-09-24
• Commonwealth v. Newberry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-09-18
• Commonwealth v. Paul
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-09-08
• Commonwealth v. Deodat
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-02-13
• Commonwealth v. Milan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2026-05-14

Cites

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

• Dombrowski v. Pfister
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-26· cited 2,255×
• Smith v. California
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-13· cited 1,258×
• Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-26· cited 1,180×
• United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1994-11-29· cited 1,064×
• Osborne v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 897×
• Nichols v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 832×
• Mishkin v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-21· cited 464×
• Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
  Supreme Court· 1966-01-17· cited 385×
• Commonwealth v. Grandison
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-01-03· cited 215×
• Massachusetts v. Oakes
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-21· cited 191×
• National Advertising Co. v. City of Miami
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-03-21· cited 104×
• O'BRIEN v. Borowski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-01-31· cited 102×
• Brianna Stephenson v. Davenport Community School District Davenport Community School Board Jim Foy, Individually William Rettko, Individually
  Eighth Circuit· 1997-05-30· cited 100×
• United States v. Johnson
  First Circuit· 2006-10-31· cited 59×
• Kentucky Right To Life, Inc. v. Terry
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-03-07· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Disler
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-04-18· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Buckley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1968-06-20· cited 39×
• State v. Weidner
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2000-06-16· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Renderos
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-11-24· cited 29×
• Coloian v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2007-10-09· cited 28×