Commonwealth v. Peterson

How courts have described this case

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

• \right of self-defence does not accrue to a person 'until he has availed himself of all proper means in his power to decline the combat' \

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-08· cited 150×
• Commonwealth v. Bastarache
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-12-12· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Kendrick
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-06-24· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Maguire
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-07-12· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Capalbo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1941-02-25· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-04-28· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Rogers
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-01-04· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Houston
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1955-06-09· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Rubin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-10-30· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Trippi
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1929-06-29· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Arone
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-11-27· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-12-21· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Leate
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-04-28· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. DeCaro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-04-30· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Lacasse
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-05-06· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Lacasse
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1973-12-11· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Binnette
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-11-30· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1974-11-19· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Leoner-Aguirre
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-12-13· cited 4×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jennings v. Rooney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1903-06-18· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Schaffner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1888-04-06· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Min Sing
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1909-05-20· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Crowley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1897-02-27· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Barnacle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1883-01-09· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Brady
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1888-11-26· cited 6×