Commonwealth v. Stewart

How courts have described this case

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

• no abuse of discretion in refusing similar questions even though defendant on trial for killing a policeman
• no abuse of discretion in refusing similar questions even though defendant on trial for killing a policeman
• “The trial court is invested with a wide discretion in determining the competency of the jurors, and the court’s judgment in this respect will not be interfered with except for an abuse of . . . discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-24· cited 198×
• Commonwealth v. McLaughlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-11-01· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Paszko
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-02-14· cited 118×
• Bartholomey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-12-04· cited 115×
• District Attorney for the Suffolk District v. Watson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-10-28· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Bumpus
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-12-04· cited 79×
• Mills v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-06-25· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Cameron
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-29· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Sheehan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-12-11· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. LeBlanc
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-07-23· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Susi
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-05-09· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Horton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-09-19· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Harrison
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-07-16· cited 27×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1972-05-12· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Arsenault
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-03-02· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Szczuka
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-04-17· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Pinckney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-04-04· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Stillwell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-12· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Wygrzywalski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-01-10· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Krasner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-10-01· cited 7×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• McGautha v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-03· cited 1,077×
• Andres v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-04-26· cited 356×
• People v. Green
  California Supreme Court· 1956-10-19· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Connolly
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-01-28· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. LePage
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-04-27· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Ricard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-04-03· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Delle Chiaie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-02-03· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-04-17· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Appleby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-12-16· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. McNeil
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1952-02-28· cited 35×
• State v. Reynolds
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1963-11-18· cited 34×
• State v. Hecker
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1923-12-18· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Gleason
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-01-06· cited 22×
• Green v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1877-10-15· cited 18×
• Smith v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1931-02-02· cited 17×
• Fleming v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1882-10-15· cited 9×