Commonwealth v. Kline

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence of negligence sufficient where \[t]he jury could conclude that the defendant at a critical moment took his eyes off the road\
• although defendant found not guilty of failure to obey traffic signal, State not precluded at de nova trial from showing color of traffic signal at time of accident when issue was negligent operation
• although the defendant was found not guilty of failure to obey a traffic signal, the Commonwealth was not precluded at the de novo trial from showing color of traffic signal at time of accident when issue was negligent operation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Woods
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-02-18· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Royce
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-06-14· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Mendes
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-04-01· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-08-12· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. McGrath
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-03-24· cited 6×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-30· cited 202×
• United States v. Lawton Scott Mock
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-10-09· cited 100×
• Goldstein v. Gontarz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-03-20· cited 93×
• United States v. Thomas A. Larkin
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-11-05· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-05-04· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Benson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-06-15· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Cannavo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-08-25· cited 3×