Commonwealth v. Rodriguez

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding lower court finding that defendant was sexually dangerous person where witnesses agreed that there was “significant probability, hard to reduce to a percentage figure, that he would commit further violent sexual crimes”
• the purpose of c. 123A is to “[protect] the public against future antisocial behavior by the offender, and of doing all that can be done to rehabilitate him”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-06-21· cited 195×
• Department of Youth Services v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-11-04· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Boucher
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-12-17· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Markvart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-07-18· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Barboza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-08-05· cited 42×
• Hill
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-02-23· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Given
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-05-20· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1978-12-22· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Reese
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-01-23· cited 27×
• Rodriguez v. Spencer
  First Circuit· 2005-06-15· cited 26×
• Department of Youth Services v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-12-22· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Magnus M.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-02-06· cited 25×
• In re Chapman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-05-16· cited 13×
• Thompson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-04-10· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Knowlton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-17· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Chapman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-04-14· cited 12×
• Sheridan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-05-08· cited 11×
• Page v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-04-01· cited 7×
• Smith v. State Parole Board
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-11-30· cited 6×
• King v. Greenblatt
  D. Massachusetts· 1999-06-21· cited 6×

Cites

28 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×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• In Re GAULT
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-15· cited 5,473×
• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• McKeiver v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 1,332×
• Breed v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1975-05-27· cited 1,196×
• Minnesota Ex Rel. Pearson v. Probate Court of Ramsey County
  Supreme Court· 1940-02-26· cited 314×
• Commonwealth v. Morrow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-05-11· cited 131×
• Andrews
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-08-13· cited 101×
• Police Commissioner v. Municipal Court of Dorchester District
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-03-16· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Lamb
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-05-06· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Travis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-03-25· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Ferrara
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-06-20· cited 53×
• A Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-01-31· cited 41×
• Anivel J. Gomes v. Charles W. Gaughan, Superintendent, Etc.
  First Circuit· 1973-01-04· cited 38×
• A Juvenile v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-05-12· cited 30×
• Peterson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1968-04-03· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Bladsa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-10-27· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Gomes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-03-11· cited 25×