Commonwealth v. Morales

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant's prior acts of violence admissible to rebut evidence of prior acts by victim on first aggressor issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Camacho
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-09-08· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Chambers
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-06-13· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Deconinck
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-08-10· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Mayotte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-08-19· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-04-11
• Commonwealth v. Colon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-09-24
• Commonwealth v. Ramos
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-12-28
• Commonwealth v. Souza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2023-08-14
• Commonwealth v. Shondell Q. Rateree
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-04-08
• Commonwealth v. Weber Andrade
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-06-04

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Flebotte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-03-21· cited 396×
• Commonwealth v. Helfant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-08-13· cited 274×
• People v. Lynch
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-10-19· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-09-29· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Peruzzi
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-03-10· cited 188×
• Commonwealth v. Adjutant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-14· cited 78×
• Johns v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1981-08-17· cited 67×
• Keith v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-05-30· cited 52×
• State v. Hill
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1981-03-16· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-12-11· cited 37×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1997-09-12· cited 31×
• People v. Blanco
  California Court of Appeal· 1992-11-04· cited 30×
• In re Robert S.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-02-26· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Sharpe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-06-22· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Mullane
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-01-09· cited 28×
• Roberson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1950-05-03· cited 18×
• Stearns v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1957-06-27· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Morales
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-10-17· cited 6×