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.

• holding that the trial court must make case-by-case determination under Waller before closing pretrial rape shield hearings under a statute requiring an in camera hearing
• holding that the public trial right extends to hearings under the state law equivalent of Fed. R. Evid. 412 and M.R.E. 412
• ordering new pretrial hearing and stating that no new trial would be required unless the pretrial hearing yielded a different result
• extending the Sixth Amendment public-trial right to hearings on the application of Massachusetts’ rape-shield law
• extending the Sixth Amendment public-trial right to hearings on the application of Massachusetts’ rape-shield law
• noting that Massachusetts and Sixth Amendment confrontation rights are coextensive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2024-06-21· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Adonsoto
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-09-16· cited 36×
• STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, Appellant, v. Byron David SMITH, Appellant, Respondent
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-03-09· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Caruso
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-01-13· cited 25×
• State v. Rogers
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2018-11-06· cited 24×
• State v. Carmona
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2016-03-17· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-03-12· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Mattei
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-10-27· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Holbrook
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-07-09· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Chism
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-01-04· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Dragotta
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-02-25· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Pease
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-10-17
• Commonwealth v. Crichlow
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-10-05
• Commonwealth v. Fernandez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-11-07
• Commonwealth v. Hipolito Masa, Jr.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2020-08-21
• Commonwealth v. Elana Gordon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-09-17
• United States v. Miller
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 2025-09-24

Cites

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

• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Davis v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-19· cited 4,179×
• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• Waller v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-21· cited 2,166×
• In Re Oliver
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 2,065×
• Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court, County of Norfolk
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-23· cited 1,561×
• Gannett Co. v. DePasquale
  Supreme Court· 1979-07-02· cited 1,226×
• Bullcoming v. New Mexico
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-23· cited 1,225×
• Williams v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-18· cited 994×
• Presley v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 2010-01-19· cited 577×
• Ohio v. Clark
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-18· cited 539×
• Kareem Peterson v. Melvin Williams
  Second Circuit· 1996-05-20· cited 164×
• Kathleen A. Braun v. Barbara Powell
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-09-18· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Joyce
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-06· cited 136×
• Department of Youth Services v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-11-04· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Cohen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-02-17· cited 116×
• United States v. Sorrentino
  Third Circuit· 1949-07-06· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Barbosa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-09-07· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Nardi
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-09-25· cited 94×