Commonwealth v. Ortiz

How courts have described this case

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

• purpose of probable cause hearing is to screen out cases that should not go to trial
• \adult and juvenile probable cause hearings serve identical purposes\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Grace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-04-15· cited 371×
• Commonwealth v. Trigones
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-05-22· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-11-16· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-01-16· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Pike
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-04-13· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Matthews
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-01-09· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Fourteen Thousand Two Hundred Dollars
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-07-27· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Wolinski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-04-13· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Spray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-03-13· cited 30×
• O'Brien v. Marshall
  First Circuit· 2006-06-27· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Hurley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-09-29· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Koonce
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-07-15· cited 25×
• Cahaly v. Benistar Property Exchange Trust Co.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-04-17· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Roberio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-10-21· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Beauchamp
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-07-10· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Tanso
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-01-14· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-02-11· cited 22×
• CHARLES C. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-04-20· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Waters
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-05-22· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-01-15· cited 20×