Commonwealth v. Rollins

How courts have described this case

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

• no prejudice to defendant where Tuey charge given after four hours of deliberations when evidence not extensive and issues not complicated
• doctrine of double jeopardy does not prevent revival of indictment on which nolle prosequi entered before jury impanelment
• prosecutor permitted to obtain second indictment for murder in first degree after defendant was permitted to withdraw his plea of guilty to murder in second degree and sentence was vacated
• judge “may” provide the instruction to assist jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Rodriquez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-08-06· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. French
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-05-04· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Shelley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-02-23· cited 115×
• People v. Sullivan
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1974-08-02· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Hosey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-09-09· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Valliere
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-12-11· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Bray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-05-09· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Nordstrom
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-11-16· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Canon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-10-19· cited 61×
• State v. White
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1972-01-07· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. O'NEAL
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-12-22· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Haley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-12-11· cited 54×
• Maldonado
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-12-07· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Pleasant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-08-01· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-05-12· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-02-04· cited 37×
• Burke v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-28· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Appleby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-12-16· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Therrien
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-05-12· cited 33×
• Wynne v. Rosen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-05-10· cited 31×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,075×
• Brasfield v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1926-11-22· cited 490×
• Jenkins v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 459×
• Commonwealth v. Dascalakis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-06-20· cited 239×
• Irven Green and Robert Benjamin Smith v. United States of America, Arnold Jack Johnson v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-11-02· cited 146×
• Kawakita v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-10-13· cited 140×
• United States v. James Hugh Rogers
  Fourth Circuit· 1961-04-04· cited 126×
• Thomas Lester Thaggard v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1966-03-28· cited 111×
• United States ex rel. Hetenyi v. Wilkins
  Second Circuit· 1965-07-13· cited 109×
• Bassing v. Cady
  Supreme Court· 1908-02-24· cited 101×
• State v. Thomas
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1959-07-20· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-05-13· cited 90×
• James Huffman and Evelyn Nelson Huffman v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-03-13· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Soaris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1931-04-06· cited 83×
• State v. Randall
  Montana Supreme Court· 1960-07-08· cited 80×
• Grady B. Burroughs, Also Known as Sam Grady Biggs v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1966-08-31· cited 75×
• Billy George Andrews v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-10-23· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. DiStasio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1937-05-27· cited 63×
• United States v. Hayden Louis Harris, Thomas Benton Harris
  Sixth Circuit· 1968-03-08· cited 62×