Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 8/3/1987
Commonwealth v. Reid
Citations
- 511 N.E.2d 331
- 400 Mass. 534
- 1987 Mass. LEXIS 1418
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “We have never suggested that an abuse of discretion would arise from the admission of dissimilar prior convictions merely because they are numerous”
- “We have never suggested that an abuse of discretion would arise from the admission of dissimilar prior convictions merely because they are numerous”
- counsel’s failure to object to admission of defendant’s fourteen prior convictions constituted ineffective assistance of counsel, but no reversal required because in circumstances of case, no showing that exclusion of some of same offenses would have markedly aided defendant
- evidence of masturbation meant to explain physical feature of child victim
- five-year-old victim allowed to demonstrate sexual conduct
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Liacos, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch, O'Connor
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27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. DockhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-08-21· cited 102×
- Commonwealth v. BarrettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-11-10· cited 92×
- Commonwealth v. LeFaveMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-11· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. KeohaneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-07-01· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. LittleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-05-14· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. BlyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-07-13· cited 35×
- Commonwealth v. EgardoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-10-29· cited 33×
- Commonwealth v. FreemanMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1990-12-20· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. CrouseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-10-23· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. NormanMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-03-06· cited 25×
- Commonwealth v. RathburnMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-12-28· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. ChartierMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-11-05· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. NylanderMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-01-20· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-04-17· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. GamacheMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-01-21· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. McCaffreyMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-06-01· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. GomesMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-09-19· cited 16×
- Murriel v. StateMississippi Supreme Court· 1987-11-18· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. WhitmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-08-11· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. KowalskiMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-07-23· cited 14×
Cites
16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-30· cited 1,208×
- Commonwealth v. SatterfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-21· cited 275×
- Commonwealth v. GallantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-02· cited 125×
- Commonwealth v. BaileyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-07· cited 112×
- Commonwealth v. BurkeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-11-22· cited 109×
- Commonwealth v. ChaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-06-10· cited 108×
- Commonwealth v. EgertonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-01-13· cited 76×
- Commonwealth v. MaguireMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-12· cited 69×
- Commonwealth v. FullerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-03-13· cited 69×
- Commonwealth v. ElliotMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-02-04· cited 46×
- Commonwealth v. KnightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-06-15· cited 38×
- Commonwealth v. EllisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-10-30· cited 29×
- Commonwealth v. MercadoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-05-05· cited 20×
- Commonwealth v. GuilfoyleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-12-05· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. ReidMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-10-01· cited 3×
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