Commonwealth v. Tobin

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a conviction for a defendant who had “knowingly and designedly ... hinder[ed], resisted] and oppose[d] a police officer”
• describing this crime to include an “affray or assault,” but failing to say that such physical contact is a requirement of the offense
• defendant charged with assaulting police officer, \and then and there also\ hindering or opposing officer in lawful discharge of his duties
• constable has right, without warrant, to enter any house the door of which is unfastened and in which there is a noise amounting to breach of peace and arrest any person engaged in an affray or in committing an assault

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mounsey v. Ellard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-06-06· cited 335×
• Accarino v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1949-11-07· cited 128×
• Wilber v. Curtis
  First Circuit· 2017-09-20· cited 110×
• Parker v. Barnard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1883-05-07· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Gorman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-11-02· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1893-01-23· cited 38×
• People v. Gallmon
  New York Court of Appeals· 1967-04-18· cited 33×
• Rouda v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1926-03-01· cited 31×
• Park v. United States
  First Circuit· 1924-01-02· cited 22×
• People v. Woodward
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1922-12-05· cited 19×
• Milton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1898-01-15· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-06-27· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Kiser
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-02-25· cited 12×
• Ford v. Breen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1899-03-02· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Tsaffaras
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-01-08· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Mullins
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-12-11· cited 4×
• Myers v. Collett
  Utah Supreme Court· 1954-04-03· cited 2×
• Putnam v. Gunning
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1895-01-02· cited 2×
• Castagna v. Edwards
  District of Columbia· 2019-01-17
• People v. Castro-Valle
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1927-07-26

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Sawyer v. Steele
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania· 1819-04-15· cited 5×