Massachusetts Appeals Court· 8/26/1996
Commonwealth v. Viera
Citations
- 41 Mass. App. Ct. 206
- 669 N.E.2d 209
- 1996 Mass. App. LEXIS 785
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Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “exercise of the summary contempt power ... by long tradition is conceived narrowly and used with great restraint”
- “when [the] element of urgency or immediacy is absent, the lawful procedure, assuming some plausible charge of contempt, is to go under rule 44 and proceed more deliberately, with customary procedural safeguards familiar to ordinary criminal trial”
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Judges: Kaplan
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8 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. RogersMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-01-07· cited 9×
- Commonwealth v. NicholasMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-04-30· cited 5×
- Commonwealth v. DiamondMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-01-07· cited 4×
- Commonwealth v. ContachMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-07-09· cited 4×
- Commonwealth v. WiencisMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-03-02· cited 4×
- Commonwealth v. MalleyMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-06-10· cited 3×
- Commonwealth v. BrunnellMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-01-20· cited 3×
- Commonwealth v. WilsonMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-03-20· cited 2×
Cites
9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- In Re OliverSupreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 2,065×
- Furtado v. FurtadoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-14· cited 84×
- Commonwealth v. CorsettiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-07-30· cited 54×
- CrystalMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1953-12-04· cited 33×
- Blankenburg v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1930-06-30· cited 30×
- Garabedian v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1957-05-29· cited 25×
- Miaskiewicz v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-14· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. SegalMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-11-09· cited 11×
- State v. GarciaCourt of Appeals of Minnesota· 1992-02-18· cited 5×
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