Commonwealth v. Love

How courts have described this case

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

• phrase “without sufficient excuse” was not unconstitutionally vague
• collecting Washington Supreme Court cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alvin Love v. Norman Butler
  First Circuit· 1991-12-19· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. McGhee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-08-13· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Tompert
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-09-27· cited 15×
• State v. Emmons
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2007-12-07· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Davie
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-12-15· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Ferreri
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-06-12· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Thetonia
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-09-19· cited 6×
• State v. Rowell
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1995-04-22· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Casey
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-04-23· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Schafer
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-06-22· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Gomez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-01-11· cited 2×
• State v. Nathan McKissack
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-02-19
• Love v. Butler
  First Circuit· 1992-10-19
• State v. Trombley
  Montana Supreme Court· 2026-03-24

Cites

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

• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Lanzetta v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1939-03-27· cited 1,416×
• Commonwealth v. Saferian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-30· cited 1,208×
• Colten v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 1,156×
• United States v. National Dairy Products Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-01· cited 902×
• Martin v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-20· cited 540×
• State v. White
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-02-18· cited 340×
• Robinson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1945-03-05· cited 243×
• Hygrade Provision Co. v. Sherman
  Supreme Court· 1925-01-05· cited 210×
• State v. MacIolek
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Orlando
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-01-24· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-06· cited 79×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-07-14· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Hood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-07-05· cited 78×
• State v. Aver
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-11-05· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-18· cited 67×
• United States v. Pete Mitchell
  Second Circuit· 1983-12-29· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Bohmer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-02-15· cited 59×
• United States v. Robert Bolivar Depugh
  Eighth Circuit· 1970-12-21· cited 56×
• People v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1985-04-29· cited 47×