Commonwealth v. Leate

How courts have described this case

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

• improperly admitted “bad character” evidence merely cumulative of other evidence already in the case
• judge not obligated to credit affidavit of recanting witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-04-01· cited 164×
• Commonwealth v. Watson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-04-13· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Grace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-08-03· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-11-16· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Cryer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-01-30· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Raymond
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-02-27· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-02-22· cited 11×
• State v. Nicholson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-06-23· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Carballo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-01-16· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Melanson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1975-03-04· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Moquin
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2004-03-16

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. De Christoforo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-12-07· cited 147×
• Commonwealth v. Robertson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-06-04· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Libby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-02-01· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Cassesso
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-12-08· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Leate
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-04-28· cited 25×