Commonwealth v. Mahar

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting proposed Mass. G. Evid. § 806 to permit impeachment by prior inconsistent statement
• adopting rule of evidence similar to § 8-8 because “[t]here is no reason to put a proponent of an absent witness in a better position than a proponent of a live witness”
• home invasion statute “clearly designed to protect occupants of a dwelling from . . . entry by an armed person who, once inside, assaults and traumatizes the occupants” [emphasis added]
• statements not hearsay; admissible because they are not offered for truth, but to impeach witness
• issue preserved for appeal when trial counsel failed to cite rule, but “argument tracked the substance of the rule”
• error, albeit harmless, to exclude prior inconsistent statement that directly contradicted nontestifying victim’s hearsay statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Calabrese
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-08-15· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Silanskas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-04-13· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Mahar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-06-07· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-07-23· cited 48×
• United States v. Barbosa
  First Circuit· 2018-07-16· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-01-22· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Hudson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-05-16· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Moses
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-04-26· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-08-12· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-11-15· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Carey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-09-07· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Deconinck
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-08-10· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Cowans
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-10-12· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Armstrong
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-12-18· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Ivy
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-09-16· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Mayotte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-08-19· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Springfield Terminal Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-08-09· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Putnam
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-10-19· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Ortiz
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-11-07· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-03-19· cited 2×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Latimore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
• Commonwealth v. Delgado
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-04-18· cited 188×
• Commonwealth v. Sellon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-25· cited 167×
• Commonwealth v. Appleby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-01· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Martino
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-03-19· cited 125×
• Flood v. Southland Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-08-05· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Basch
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-28· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Schulze
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-07-22· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Dunn
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-06-26· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1977-06-30· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Robbins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-03-19· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Ricardo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-08-23· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Gelpi
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-01-04· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Fleming
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-03-02· cited 6×