Commonwealth v. Reed

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “a knife ... is a deadly weapon”
• evidence defendant \became 'scared'\ insufficient for self-defense instruction
• merely being afraid is not sufficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McCambridge v. Hall
  First Circuit· 2002-08-27· cited 186×
• Brum v. Town of Dartmouth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-01-21· cited 171×
• Commonwealth v. Pike
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-11-19· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Vinnie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-08-12· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-02-12· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Souza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-12-11· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. McAfee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-12-28· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Toon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-08-22· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Roberts
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-12-14· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Noble
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-02-18· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Medina
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-02-17· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Vives
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-10-12· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Haddock
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-01-28· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-11-18· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Alves
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-02-05· cited 15×
• John M. McCambridge v. Timothy Hall, Superintendent
  First Circuit· 2001-09-24· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Wood
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-09-16· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Hart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-01-07· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Pichardo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-08-13· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Tirado
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-02-24· cited 9×

Cites

37 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×
• Commonwealth v. Mello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-05-17· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Harrington
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-09· cited 175×
• Commonwealth v. Curtis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-05-02· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Grey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-03-19· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Sires
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-29· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Chance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1899-09-07· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Carrion
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-04-17· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Judge
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-01· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-12· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Andrews
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-11-29· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. McDuffee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-12-13· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Trapp
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-07-31· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Lacy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-11-22· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Huot
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-16· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Bourgeois
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-05-16· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Sneed
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-08-13· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Sama
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-12-05· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. LePage
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-04-27· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Glass
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-03-09· cited 61×