Commonwealth v. Morrison

How courts have described this case

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

• \misrepresentation as to a person's present intention may be a false pretense\ without direct evidence of false statement
• \False representations may be made by acts as well as words\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Ashley
  California Supreme Court· 1954-02-19· cited 317×
• Commonwealth v. Greenberg
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-07-16· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Kiernan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1964-10-05· cited 98×
• Sheehy v. Lipton Industries, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-05-20· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Bellino
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-01-08· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Stasiun
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-04-22· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Giacomazza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-05-25· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Devlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1957-03-20· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Mannos
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-02-25· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Capalbo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1941-02-25· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Ries
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1958-05-14· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Louis Construction Co. Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1962-02-12· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Barker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-02-25· cited 32×
• Chaplin v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1946-04-15· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Edgerly
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1978-04-19· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Rudnick
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-03-13· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-09-15· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Hamblen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-04-27· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Ancillo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-03-11· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Aronson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-10-29· cited 17×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Peaslee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1901-01-01· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Mulrey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1898-01-07· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1877-10-19· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Farmer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1914-09-10· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-11-15· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Althause
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1910-11-22· cited 38×
• Clark v. Boston & Maine Railroad
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1895-10-18· cited 21×
• Woodcock v. Bowman
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1862-06-24· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Ham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1889-11-18· cited 12×