Commonwealth v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an alternate juror present in the deliberation room while the twelve empaneled jurors deliberated constituted prejudice and warranted a new trial
• “general rule that a defendant is bound by his or her counsel’s agreements”
• parties agreed to allow four alternate jurors to be present for duration of deliberations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Murphy
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2001-06-06· cited 807×
• Commonwealth v. Amirault
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-03-24· cited 178×
• Koch v. Rist
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2000-07-12· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. LaChance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-10-21· cited 43×
• State v. Crandall
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1990-03-20· cited 40×
• State v. Menuey
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1991-11-15· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Sheehy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-03-16· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Goudreau
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-05-22· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Dussault
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-04-10· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-12-26· cited 13×
• Jones-Harris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-03-13· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-08-29· cited 10×
• State v. Madren
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2021-02-19· cited 10×
• Fitzpatrick v. Allen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-08-06· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Solis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-05-15· cited 8×
• State v. Downour
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2010-09-29· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Thetonia
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-09-19· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Casey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-06-03· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Murchison
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-09-07· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Banister
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-10-06· cited 4×

Cites

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

• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Taylor v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1975-01-21· cited 2,446×
• Ivan v. v. City of New York
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 268×
• Woodward v. Leavitt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-09-15· cited 166×
• Commonwealth v. Hoffer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-06-09· cited 161×
• Commonwealth v. Fidler
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-01-30· cited 158×
• United States v. Virginia Erection Corporation and John P. Shields
  Fourth Circuit· 1964-08-05· cited 137×
• United States v. Wilton Chatman
  Fourth Circuit· 1978-10-17· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Haywood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-04-05· cited 118×
• Ciummei v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-25· cited 115×
• United States v. Robert Fulton Beasley, Jr.
  Tenth Circuit· 1972-09-05· cited 98×
• United States v. Watson
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-03-08· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. MacDonald (No. 1)
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-07-22· cited 79×
• United States v. Carlton Ellis Allison
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-07-13· cited 74×
• State v. Cuzick
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-01-10· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-12-17· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Breese
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-06-21· cited 37×
• United States v. Carlton Ellis Allison
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-11-13· cited 34×
• People v. Valles
  California Supreme Court· 1979-04-24· cited 31×