Commonwealth v. Wade

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to construe statute such that it “would become a useless legislative exercise”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-12-05· cited 587×
• Commonwealth v. Babb
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-25· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-02-09· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Provost
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-10-05· cited 19×
• Town of Milford v. Boyd
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-08-13· cited 16×
• Affiliated Hospitals Center, Inc. v. Rate Setting Commission
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1979-05-16· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Curtin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-23· cited 5×
• Stavaridis v. Dynamic Machine Works, Inc.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1994-07-29· cited 3×
• Peznola v. O'Brien
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1981-06-26
• Commonwealth v. Blood
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1982-02-18
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1999-04-28

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pereira v. New England LNG Co., Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-09-17· cited 79×
• Mathewson v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1957-03-29· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Brooks
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-11-29· cited 49×
• Boston Elevated Railway Co. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-01-08· cited 46×
• A Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-01-31· cited 41×
• City of Malden v. Flynn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-05-09· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Riley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1956-01-03· cited 6×