Commonwealth v. Trapp

How courts have described this case

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

• prior bad act admissible where it is not offered to demonstrate that defendant acted in conformity with his or her past actions but rather to “prove a relevant subsidiary fact”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Helfant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-08-13· cited 274×
• Commonwealth v. Drew
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-03-12· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Barrett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-11-10· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Montanino
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-03-11· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Kater
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-08-30· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Triplett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-11-18· cited 74×
• Trapp v. Spencer
  First Circuit· 2007-03-01· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Trapp
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-07-31· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Montez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-02-28· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Forte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-08-22· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Tran
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-09-14· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-12-17· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Zeininger
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-05-24· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-12-11· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-08-13· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Ashman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-02-09· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Sliech-Brodeur
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-07-19· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Parenteau
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-06-10· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Roderick
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-04-02· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Anestal
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-11-06· cited 31×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Massiah v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-18· cited 3,189×
• Kirby v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-07· cited 3,001×
• Coleman v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,808×
• Simon v. Solomon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-01-18· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. Bradshaw
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-02-12· cited 232×
• Commonwealth v. McHoul
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-05-16· cited 220×
• DiMarzo v. American Mutual Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-04· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Sellon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-25· cited 167×
• Blaisdell v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-06-14· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-12-15· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1882-01-04· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Welcome
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1964-10-29· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Smallwood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-03· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-06-06· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Stone
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-06-24· cited 80×
• Wingate v. Emery Air Freight Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-02· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Accaputo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-18· cited 75×
• Julian v. Randazzo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-15· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Devlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1957-03-20· cited 67×