Commonwealth v. Moore

How courts have described this case

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

• abuse can cause “a decrease in self-esteem, an emotional dependence upon the dominant male and [a] type of psychological ‘learned’ helplessness”
• such testimony has been “admitted to aid the jury in evaluating the reasonableness of the defendant’s apprehension of serious, imminent bodily harm and to explain why the defendant remained in the relationship or the home after suffering beatings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bechtel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1992-09-02· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Grimshaw
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-04-22· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Pike
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-04-13· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Lazarovich
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-06-24· cited 21×
• R. H. v. B. F.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-08-04· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-09-14· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-05-07· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Grimshaw
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-08-22· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Fappiano
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-08-16· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-07-01· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Conaghan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-12-03· cited 2×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1984-07-24· cited 515×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-05-13· cited 218×
• Ibn-Tamas v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-10-15· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Fatalo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-06-24· cited 76×
• Buhrle v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1981-05-13· cited 68×
• Hawthorne v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-01-18· cited 65×
• State v. Anaya
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-12-29· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Devlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-04-22· cited 59×
• State v. Thomas
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1981-06-24· cited 53×
• People v. Torres
  New York Supreme Court· 1985-04-16· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. United Books, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-08-15· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Smythe
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-01-06· cited 10×