Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2/13/2017
Commonwealth v. Thomas
Citations
- 476 Mass. 451
- 68 N.E.3d 1161
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- concluding that “the relative superiority of competing identification procedures [involving simultaneous versus sequential lineups] is unresolved” (quoting Nat’l Rsch. Council, Nat’l Acad. of Scis., Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification 3 (2014
- discussing how witness's prior familiarity with defendant is factor in reliability of identification
- no abuse of discretion in suppressing witness's identification of firearm where \her description of the firearm provided no detail that would suggest that she could identify anything more than its type\
- where there is no consensus that simultaneous display of photographs is inferior to sequential display, “the decision ... is best left to law enforcement, and the choice will continue to bear on the weight of the identification, but not on its admissibility”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Gants, Botsford, Lenk, Hines, Gaziano, Lowy, Budd
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- Commonwealth v. GalipeauMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-05-16· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. McEvoyMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-06-04· cited 3×
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Cites
22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- L.L., a juvenile v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-12-05· cited 587×
- State v. HendersonSupreme Court of New Jersey· 2011-08-24· cited 487×
- People v. RodriguezNew York Court of Appeals· 1992-05-07· cited 399×
- Commonwealth v. CraytonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-12-17· cited 226×
- Commonwealth v. DiGiambattistaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-08-16· cited 167×
- Commonwealth v. KolenovicMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-06-23· cited 137×
- Commonwealth v. Silva-SantiagoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-05-15· cited 137×
- Commonwealth v. OtsukiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-11-18· cited 80×
- Commonwealth v. WalkerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-09-21· cited 74×
- Commonwealth v. GomesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-01-12· cited 70×
- Commonwealth v. DiazMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-03-13· cited 68×
- Commonwealth v. NovoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-08-06· cited 64×
- Commonwealth v. PhillipsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-11-24· cited 44×
- Commonwealth v. FigueroaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-05-19· cited 44×
- Commonwealth v. OdwareMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-03-18· cited 40×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-02-12· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. SimmonsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-05-22· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. SpannMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-03-12· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. SimmonsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-02-27· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. BresillaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-01-16· cited 29×
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