Commonwealth v. Sowell

How courts have described this case

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

• involuntary manslaughter instruction not required where the knife produced a deep stab wound penetrating the fleshy portion of the upper thigh to the bone

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-12-20· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Tague
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-07-10· cited 27×
• State v. Jennings
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1989-08-01· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Sowell
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-03-22· cited 18×
• M-W
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2012-07-01· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Snow
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-01-25· cited 6×
• United States v. Houlihan
  D. Massachusetts· 1996-07-16· cited 3×

Cites

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

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Commonwealth v. Latimore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-06-01· cited 628×
• Commonwealth v. Toney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-18· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Kelley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-04-15· cited 184×
• Commonwealth v. Hobbs
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-04-28· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Forde
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-11· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Santo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-05-23· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Chappee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-05-12· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Nadworny
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-12-11· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-04-10· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Best
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-09-05· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Lowe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-02-09· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Palmariello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-06-01· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Key
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-06-27· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Benoit
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-06-10· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Nolin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-07· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-09-16· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Dunker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-07-02· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. LeBlanc
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-10-04· cited 28×