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.

• “What matters for purposes of the armed home invasion statute is that the defendant has knowledge that someone is present in the dwelling” [emphasis added]
• alternative scienter clauses within second element of armed home invasion charge not alternative theories of proof

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-04-26· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Woods
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2019-02-07· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-09-15· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-11-21· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Martinez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2014-05-07· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-04-07
• Commonwealth v. Inoa
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2020-04-02
• Commonwealth v. Jenkins
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2024-07-08

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mills
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-22· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Doucette
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-12-15· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Ruiz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-01-07· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Collardo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-04-06· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-09-04· cited 4×