Commonwealth v. Lucas

How courts have described this case

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

• in determining whether allegedly confusing or prejudicial evidence was properly excluded, “much must be left to the discretion” of the trial judge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-05-04· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Kleciak
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-05-04· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. MacHado
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-11-06· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Sazama
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-05-04· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Morrison
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1973-12-27· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Dougherty
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-12-08· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Geisler
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-08-02· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Templeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-10-16· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Brant
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1979-10-31· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Orton
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1976-10-18· cited 2×
• Evatte v. Behanna
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 1972-05-02

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Trefethen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1892-10-19· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Madeiros
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-03-29· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Farrell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-04-12· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1876-10-20· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Boris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-12-01· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Sheppard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-04-26· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Granito
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-11-30· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Capalbo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1941-02-25· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Aronson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1953-10-29· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1951-07-26· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-05-28· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Vaughn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1952-10-30· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-05-29· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-02-28· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Twombly
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-05-01· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Grieco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-02-03· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Cohan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-10-31· cited 11×