Commonwealth v. Perry

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecutors may not appeal to jury sympathy or prejudices in order “to sweep jurors beyond a fair and calm consideration of the evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Mahdi
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-04-08· cited 192×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-07-21· cited 142×
• Commonwealth v. Graziano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-07-19· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Shelley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-02-23· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Clary
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-29· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Farrell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-04-12· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. McLeod
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-05-08· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Monahan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-05-03· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-06-10· cited 69×
• Interstate Busses Corp. v. Holyoke Street Railway Co.
  Supreme Court· 1927-01-03· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Montez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-02-28· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-03-07· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Drumgold
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-07-18· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Mercier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-10-30· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Hanley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1958-04-16· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Kleciak
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-05-04· cited 39×
• Phillips v. Vorenberg
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1927-04-04· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-08-02· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Baran
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-05-15· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Coshnear
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-02-25· cited 27×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Sinclair
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1907-04-01· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Cabot
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1922-03-14· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Bishop
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1896-01-03· cited 43×
• London v. Bay State Street Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1919-01-02· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1924-02-26· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Carbin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1886-11-26· cited 3×