Commonwealth v. Rhoades

How courts have described this case

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

• “the chain of circumstances permitted the jury to infer that the defendant ‘wilfully and maliciously’ set the fire”
• jury warranted in finding fire was wilfully and maliciously, as opposed to accidentally, set

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1990-05-17· cited 222×
• Commonwealth v. Toney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-18· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Sellon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-25· cited 167×
• Commonwealth v. Bianco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-09· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-07-21· cited 142×
• Commonwealth v. Gallison
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-06-03· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Bastarache
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-12-12· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Wilborne
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-07· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Shelley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-21· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Sheline
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-02-24· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. McCoy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-05-20· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. McLeod
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-05-08· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Basch
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-28· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Drayton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-04-30· cited 78×
• Gath v. M/A-Com, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-12-08· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Levesque
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-29· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-25· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Fernette
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-11-26· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Reid
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-05· cited 58×
• Spence v. Gormley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-08-26· cited 57×

Cites

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

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Commonwealth v. Latimore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
• Commonwealth v. Kelley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-04-15· cited 184×
• Commonwealth v. Amazeen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-04-20· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Vitello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-09-26· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Roberts
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-05-15· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Bailey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-07· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Cooper
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-09-12· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Nassar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-06-07· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-06-14· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Clifford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-01-27· cited 82×
• Wallace v. Ludwig
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-10-30· cited 82×
• United States v. Wendell Blount
  Sixth Circuit· 1973-06-08· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Makarewicz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1956-02-15· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Seit
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-19· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Giacomazza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-05-25· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Imbruglia
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-04-02· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-11-02· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-08-24· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Croft
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1962-11-28· cited 51×