Commonwealth v. Vaughn

How courts have described this case

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

• jury could infer defendant's subjective awareness of risks of injecting heroin from his conduct after victim passed out
• defendant convicted of involuntary manslaughter after injecting heroin into the victim
• defendant convicted of involuntary manslaughter after injecting heroin into the victim
• applying Catalina in the context of sufficiency of the evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Niland
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-09-29· cited 13×
• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-04-20· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Carrillo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-10-03
• Commonwealth v. Carrillo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-11-14

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Welansky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-06-05· cited 283×
• Commonwealth v. Sanna
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-01-13· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Bastarache
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-12-12· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-12· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Catalina
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-03· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Grimshaw
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-04-22· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Flynn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-07-21· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Osachuk
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-07-01· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Auditore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-03· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-02-08· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-10-04· cited 4×