Commonwealth v. Marcus

How courts have described this case

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

• finding a mandatory five-year prison sentence for distributing a class A controlled substance when imposed on a repeat offender selling no more heroin than was necessary to support his habit not violative of the prohibitions against cruel or unusual punishment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Dunn
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-06-26· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Silva
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-01-30· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-02-04· cited 3×
• State of Tennessee v. Alvin Ray Taylor
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-04-26
• Commonwealth v. Navarro-Melendez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2019-01-04

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Rummel v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-18· cited 2,234×
• Gore v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 885×
• In Re Lynch
  California Supreme Court· 1972-12-04· cited 852×
• People v. Broadie
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-06-18· cited 406×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-03-15· cited 150×
• Commonwealth v. Morrow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-05-11· cited 131×
• McDonald v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1899-05-18· cited 82×
• Carmona v. Ward
  Second Circuit· 1978-04-21· cited 56×
• Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-06· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Diatchenko
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-12-08· cited 23×