Commonwealth v. Parker

How courts have described this case

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

• “Physically harmful touching is a battery, and consent is immaterial. However, a nonharmful touching is a battery only if there is no consent”
• where defendant assaulted victim with lit cigarette and razor blade, there was sufficient evidence even though victim’s injuries apparently were result of her movements in attempt to escape

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cleary
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-08-28· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Repoza
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1990-03-07· cited 10×
• Evans v. Lorillard Tobacco Co.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2007-02-07· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Bior
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-08-28· cited 1×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. David Guillette and Robert Joost
  Second Circuit· 1976-12-20· cited 203×
• Commonwealth v. Bianco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-09· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Appleby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-01· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Bianco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-09-27· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Farrell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-04-12· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Burno
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-01-28· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Welch
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-06-29· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Burno
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1984-11-19· cited 6×