Commonwealth v. McKay

How courts have described this case

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

• no error where sentencing judge allowed two people familiar with defendant \to address the court on the defendant's background and character but refused\ to allow testimony about circumstances of crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-03-16· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Bennett
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-12-15· cited 3×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-04-15· cited 371×
• Commonwealth v. Swenson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-06-30· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-01· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Grace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-08-03· cited 56×
• United States v. Eugene Pete Garcia, United States of America v. Joe Anthony Contreras and David Lucero
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-07-08· cited 42×
• United States v. Luis Alicea Estrella
  First Circuit· 1977-12-27· cited 37×
• Association for Reduction of Violence v. Frank A. Hall
  First Circuit· 1984-05-09· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. McGrath
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-11-02· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Grace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-11-12· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Grace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-09-29· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Curry
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1978-10-02· cited 9×