Commonwealth v. Mendes

How courts have described this case

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

• three opinions as to accuracy: 97% for guilty, 92% for innocent; 84% for guilty, 53% for innocent; 74% for guilty, 72% for innocent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Lanigan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-11-18· cited 289×
• Connecticut v. Porter
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-05-20· cited 268×
• Commonwealth v. Curnin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-01-24· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Mamay
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-05-15· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Donahue
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-02-03· cited 97×
• Vassallo v. Baxter Healthcare Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-07-16· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Daye
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-01-29· cited 89×
• Lee v. Martinez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2004-07-14· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Phoenix
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-02-28· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Daggett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-11-08· cited 57×
• Commercial Union Insurance v. Boston Edison Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-04-27· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Martinez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-06-10· cited 34×
• State v. A.O.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2009-03-04· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Wall
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-09-11· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Fernandez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-10-04· cited 27×
• Cassamassima v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-06-02· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Kent K.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-07-07· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Tanso
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-01-14· cited 23×
• State v. Shively
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2000-03-10· cited 16×
• United States v. Rodriguez
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1993-09-20· cited 16×

Cites

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

• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• United States v. John W. Downing
  Third Circuit· 1985-01-25· cited 627×
• People v. Baynes
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-12-04· cited 265×
• State v. Valdez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1962-05-23· cited 193×
• State v. Souel
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1978-02-22· cited 190×
• State v. Williams
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 167×
• People v. Barbara
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1977-06-13· cited 166×
• State v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-03-10· cited 165×
• United States v. Roland Addison, United States of America v. Albert Henry Raymond
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-06-06· cited 143×
• United States v. Isiah Williams and Michael Manning
  Second Circuit· 1978-09-20· cited 141×
• State v. Marti
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-03-19· cited 134×
• United States v. Steven John Alexander
  Eighth Circuit· 1975-11-18· cited 126×
• State v. Biddle
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1980-05-13· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-06-12· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Vitello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-09-26· cited 122×
• State v. Antone
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1980-07-17· cited 120×
• State v. Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-02-06· cited 118×
• Pulakis v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-11-09· cited 111×
• State v. Renfro
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-01-15· cited 108×
• United States v. Carl Joseph Baller, Jr.
  Fourth Circuit· 1975-07-09· cited 105×