Commonwealth v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming extortion conviction by ruling that phrase threatens “an injury to the person” includes severe mental anguish
• affirming extortion conviction by ruling that phrase “threatens an injury to the person” includes severe mental anguish
• mens rea is general principle of jurisprudence and not constitutionally mandated in child sexual assault cases
• age an element of crime of statutory rape, G. L. c. 265, § 23, although knowledge of age is not
• threat to circulate photograph of semi-clad young woman and expose information about her sexual activities constituted “malicious threat” to injure young woman’s person under G. L. c. 265, § 25
• “It has long been the law of this Commonwealth that it is no defense that the defendant did not know that the victim was under the statutory age of consent. ... [The mens rea principle] is just that — a general principle, not always a constitutionally mandated doctrine.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rivera v. Double A Transportation, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-03-16· cited 260×
• People v. Olsen
  California Supreme Court· 1984-08-23· cited 103×
• State v. Payne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-05-06· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Chou
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-01-22· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Boucher
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-12-17· cited 69×
• Fleming, Mark Alexander
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-06-18· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Alvarez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-24· cited 49×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-02-12· cited 47×
• United States v. Williams
  First Circuit· 2008-05-07· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Disler
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-04-18· cited 42×
• Smith v. Sex Offender Registry Board
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-03-24· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Dunne
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-02-07· cited 35×
• State v. Yanez
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1998-08-04· cited 32×
• Mark Fleming v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2012-08-02· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Knap
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-05-29· cited 27×
• United States v. Eric Eugene Brooks
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-02-29· cited 25×
• Scott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2001-01-11· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Simcock
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-08-06· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Bernardo B.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-02-06· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Lawton
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-10-03· cited 18×

Cites

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

• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-29· cited 1,267×
• Smith v. California
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-13· cited 1,258×
• Dennis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-06-04· cited 1,230×
• Williams v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1945-05-21· cited 1,048×
• Lambert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1958-01-27· cited 895×
• United States v. Balint
  Supreme Court· 1922-03-27· cited 605×
• People v. Hernandez
  California Supreme Court· 1964-07-09· cited 220×
• Commonwealth v. Snow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1930-01-06· cited 82×
• State v. Guest
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-09-01· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Corcoran
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-05-22· cited 57×
• State v. Superior Court of Pima County
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1969-05-28· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1895-12-31· cited 48×
• Johnson v. Bradstreet Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1891-03-23· cited 47×
• Ellis v. Brockton Publishing Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1908-05-20· cited 43×
• People v. Goodman
  California Court of Appeal· 1958-03-31· cited 42×
• Sammie L. Nelson v. John Moriarty, Superintendent of Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, Massachusetts
  First Circuit· 1973-09-20· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-05-12· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. De Vincent
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-01-28· cited 34×
• Toliver v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-02-08· cited 28×