Commonwealth v. Sherman

How courts have described this case

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

• consensual sexual intercourse can become unlawful where victim withdraws consent during encounter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• COMMONWEALTH v. TIMOTHY M. LAVIN (and ten companion cases ).
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2022-06-23· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2020-03-26
• Commonwealth v. Silvelo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2020-10-14
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2020-11-30
• Commonwealth v. Linenkemper
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2024-07-19
• Commonwealth v. Benevides
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2026-04-28

Cites

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

• Lawrence v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 1,452×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-06-01· cited 628×
• Commonwealth v. Azar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-01-23· cited 186×
• Goodridge v. Department of Public Health
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-11-18· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. LeFave
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-08-18· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Delaney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-07-28· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. McCoy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-05-20· cited 89×
• Newsom v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-04-03· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-04-17· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Gerhardt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-09-19· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-05-22· cited 34×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1985-08-15· cited 33×
• People v. John Z.
  California Supreme Court· 2003-01-06· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Blache
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-02-08· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Kennedy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-02-09· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Alcantara
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-06-01· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Niemic
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-09-17· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-07-10· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Richardson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-04-17· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Carlson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-03-12· cited 11×