Commonwealth v. Kimball

How courts have described this case

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

• holding fast to the Massachusetts rule while acknowledging the general rule elsewhere
• conviction for indecent assault based solely on confession upheld

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Lucas
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1959-06-01· cited 182×
• Commonwealth v. Forde
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-11· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Burke
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-13· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-03-15· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Fiore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-03-25· cited 52×
• State v. Tillman
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1964-07-07· cited 47×
• State v. Francis Noboru Yoshida
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1960-07-29· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. MacHado
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-11-06· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-25· cited 33×
• State v. Curlew
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1983-04-19· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Villalta-Duarte
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-09-12· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Spear
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1974-12-06· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Shaheen
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-02-15· cited 7×
• State v. Pickard
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1962-01-29· cited 4×
• State v. Portee
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1966-01-24· cited 3×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. DiStasio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-04-07· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Gale
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-11-29· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Zelenski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-06-25· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Killion
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1907-02-26· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Mabey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1937-12-27· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Sanborn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1874-10-28· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Holt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1876-10-24· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Morrissey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1900-02-27· cited 6×