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.

• if a criminal defendant “seeks the benefit of testifying, he cannot stop short with matters which are favorable to himself, but must submit to be questioned also as to relevant matters which are adverse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Raffel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1926-06-07· cited 374×
• Commonwealth v. Judge
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-01· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Pratt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-06-14· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Kiernan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1964-10-05· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Stasiun
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-04-22· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Kelley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-03-18· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. West
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-11-30· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-04-28· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Mannos
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-02-25· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Corcoran
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-05-22· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Rogers
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1902-04-02· cited 51×
• United States v. Mortimer
  Second Circuit· 1941-03-17· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Gagnon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-30· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Stuart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1911-01-07· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Galvin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-01-28· cited 44×
• Ikeda v. Curtis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1953-10-06· cited 42×
• Koplan v. Boston Gas Light Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1900-10-18· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Francis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-05-10· cited 36×
• Robinson v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1905-12-04· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Shuman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-03-06· cited 35×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Emery's case
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-03-15· cited 107×
• Bloomer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1878-05-03· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Nichols
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1873-11-15· cited 59×
• Parker v. Nickerson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1884-09-05· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Morgan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-03-15· cited 52×
• Smethurst v. Proprietors of Independent Congregational Church in Barton Square
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1889-01-03· cited 52×
• People v. Tice
  New York Court of Appeals· 1892-03-15· cited 50×
• Archer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1886-05-24· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Bonner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1867-11-15· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Mullen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1867-10-15· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Harlow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1872-10-15· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1877-10-19· cited 29×
• Andrews v. Frye
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1870-03-15· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Tolliver
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1876-01-04· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1882-03-04· cited 20×
• Crowley v. Appleton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1888-11-28· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1889-12-31· cited 16×
• United States v. Cole
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Ohio· 1853-10-15· cited 14×
• Farnum v. Pitcher
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1890-05-10· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Hanley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1886-01-07· cited 5×