Commonwealth v. Richardson

How courts have described this case

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

• G.L.c. 266, §120, construed not to apply to the activities of ministers who go from house to house distributing or selling religious literature
• “entry upon another’s close, or into his house, at usual and reasonable hours, and in a customary manner, for any of the common purposes of life, cannot be regarded as a trespass”
• “[The statute’s] only purpose is to protect the rights of those in lawful control of property to forbid entrance by those whom they are unwilling to receive, and to exclude them if, having entered, those in control see fit to command them to leave”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• Alexis v. McDonald's Restaurants of Massachusetts, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1995-10-10· cited 232×
• Commonwealth v. Hood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-07-05· cited 78×
• State v. Cariaga
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1974-04-30· cited 46×
• City of Missoula v. Mix
  Montana Supreme Court· 1950-01-19· cited 42×
• State v. Hoyt
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-04-24· cited 40×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-09-08· cited 36×
• Anderson v. DeVries
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-06-12· cited 35×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1999-01-08· cited 31×
• Griffin & Greene v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-06-08· cited 16×
• State v. Quinnell
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1967-06-09· cited 13×
• Hynes v. City of Lakeland
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-05-04· cited 12×
• People v. Vaughan
  California Court of Appeal· 1944-07-28· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Akmakjian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-04-28· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Magadini
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-06-23· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Vinnicombe
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1990-02-13· cited 8×
• City of Fort Scott v. Arbuckle
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1947-12-06· cited 8×
• BEACONSFIELD TOWNE HOUSE CONDOMINIUM TRUST v. Zussman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-12-07· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Krasner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-10-01· cited 7×
• Morra v. Hill
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1961-11-30· cited 6×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cantwell v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1940-05-20· cited 3,669×
• Lovell v. City of Griffin
  Supreme Court· 1938-03-28· cited 1,301×
• Jamison v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-08· cited 324×
• Plummer v. Dill
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1892-05-20· cited 191×
• Largent v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-08· cited 131×
• Ashapa v. Reed
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1932-10-26· cited 101×
• McKee v. Gratz
  Supreme Court· 1922-11-13· cited 73×
• Hart v. Cole
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1892-06-21· cited 31×
• Norris v. Hugh Nawn Contracting Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1910-05-18· cited 28×
• Bacon v. Jaques
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-10-31· cited 21×
• Thomas v. City of Atlanta
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1939-02-28· cited 17×
• City of Cincinnati v. Mosier
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 1939-01-30· cited 15×
• Riley v. Harris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1900-11-27· cited 12×
• Melville Shoe Corp. v. Kozminsky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1929-06-27· cited 9×
• Tremont Theatre Amusement Co. v. Bruno
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1917-01-04· cited 7×
• State v. . Lawson
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 1888-09-05· cited 3×
• Freeman v. Wright
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1904-03-16· cited 2×