Commonwealth v. Sacco

How courts have described this case

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

• law empowering Superior Court to grant new trials at any time before sentencing was law relating to powers of courts
• statute enacted solely to empower the Superior Court to grant a new trial in murder cases
• \Th[e] court could not inquire whether the facts as set forth in the printed record justified the verdict. . . . What is reviewed in effect is the conduct of the trial judge; only so called questions of law are open\

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Cited by

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

• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-11-04· cited 189×
• Commonwealth v. De Christoforo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-12-07· cited 147×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. French
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-05-04· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Caine
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-11-13· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Millen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-02-14· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Polian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-12-01· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Nassar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-06-07· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Bernier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-03-08· cited 87×
• Horton v. Attorney General
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1929-12-31· cited 74×
• Justin J. Boucher v. School Board of the School District of Greenfield
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-01-09· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Pisa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-13· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Bartolini
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1938-02-28· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Devlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1957-03-20· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Galvin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-07-23· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Lussier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1955-07-14· cited 61×
• Grady v. Collins Transportation Co. Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1960-12-06· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Chin Kee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-06-05· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-08-15· cited 49×

Cites

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

• Twining v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1908-11-09· cited 773×
• Commonwealth v. Dascalakis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-06-20· cited 239×
• Commonwealth v. Trefethen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1892-10-19· cited 199×
• Woodward v. Leavitt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-09-15· cited 166×
• Lindenbaum v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1908-02-26· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Kennedy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1897-11-27· cited 83×
• Carroll v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1909-01-06· cited 78×
• Jennings v. Rooney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1903-06-18· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Sinclair
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1907-04-01· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Cabot
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1922-03-14· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1905-06-20· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Borasky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1913-04-01· cited 46×
• Chase v. Proprietors of the Revere House
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1919-02-01· cited 44×
• Elmer v. Fessenden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1890-04-09· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Bishop
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1896-01-03· cited 43×
• London v. Bay State Street Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1919-01-02· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Crapo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1912-05-27· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Min Sing
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1909-05-20· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Poisson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1893-01-03· cited 32×
• Toupin v. Peabody
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1895-01-01· cited 28×

Other cases named Commonwealth v. Sacco

5 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Commonwealth v. Sacco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1927-04-05· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Sacco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-12-09· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Sacco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1927-08-18· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Sacco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-05· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Sacco
  Delaware County Court of Quarter Sessions· 1935-08-16