Commonwealth v. Mercado

How courts have described this case

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

• “basic trouble . . . was weakness in the facts rather than any inadequacy of counsel”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Connor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-21· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Drayton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-04-30· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-05-08· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Burke
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-02-11· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Frank
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-01-12· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Reid
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-08-03· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Candelario
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-06-05· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Griffith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-09· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Florentino
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-02-06· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Gaeten
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-03-29· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Dykens
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-03-14· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Walters
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-08-28· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Ware
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-07-26· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Dutra
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-03-29· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-01-31· cited 4×
• Globe Leather & Shoe Findings, Inc. v. Golburgh
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-06-10· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Moffat
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2020-11-12
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1996-05-15

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Napue v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 4,234×
• Commonwealth v. Saferian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-30· cited 1,208×
• Commonwealth v. Satterfield
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-21· cited 275×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-03-31· cited 224×
• Commonwealth v. Sellon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-25· cited 167×
• Commonwealth v. Rondeau
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-05· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Amazeen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-04-20· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-06-11· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-02-23· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Fluker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-01-18· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Daigle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-18· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-11-06· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Grace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-08-03· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Key
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-06-27· cited 50×
• Reddick v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-29· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-01· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Mains
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-03-31· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. O'BRIEN
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-05-30· cited 6×