Commonwealth v. Pearce

How courts have described this case

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

• individual voir dire on race was unnecessary because crime was not clearly interracial
• lesser included offense instruction was proper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Berry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-05-03· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Souza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-12-11· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Pearce
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-06-11· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Donlan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-14· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Stack
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-05-25· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Fortini
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-04-08· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. West
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-01-15· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Cameron
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-08-17· cited 1×

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-06-01· cited 628×
• Michigan v. Lucas
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 513×
• Commonwealth v. Kozec
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-03-24· cited 348×
• Commonwealth v. Joyce
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-06· cited 136×
• Lonnie K. Stephens v. Charles B. Miller, Warden, and Attorney General of the State of Indiana
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-01-06· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Burke
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-02· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Chavis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-07-08· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Santo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-05-23· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Nardone
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-11-20· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Stockhammer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-05-01· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Sanders
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-06-01· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Egerton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-01-13· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Figueroa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-21· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-11-20· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Mahoney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-03-07· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Schulze
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-07-22· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Ruffen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-05-12· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Elliot
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-02-04· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Figueroa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-02-12· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Good
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-03-28· cited 44×