Commonwealth v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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

• inappropriate for prosecutor to tell jurors they could, and would, “do justice”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Degro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-08-17· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Andrade
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-03-06· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Hallet
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-06-02· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Phillips
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-11-24· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Vizcarrondo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-05-05· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. DiBenedetto
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-05-08· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Pearce
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-06-11· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Rutherford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-03-16· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-08-08· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Bresilla
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-01-16· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Zimmerman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-03-09· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Ashley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-06-09· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Franklin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-07-16· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. McWilliams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-02-12· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Alvarez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-08-22· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-08-11· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Zuluaga
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-10-10· cited 18×
• People v. Alexander
  New York Court of Appeals· 1999-12-21· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Lugo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-03-18· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-10-22· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-06-01· cited 628×
• United States v. Melvin Telfaire
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-06-19· cited 477×
• Commonwealth v. Kozec
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-03-24· cited 348×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-06-21· cited 195×
• Commonwealth v. Toney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-18· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Graziano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-07-19· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Carrion
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-04-17· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-01-11· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Barnett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-09-15· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Ferreira
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-06· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-11-13· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Hooks
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-05-23· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-07-03· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Francis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-09-08· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Phoenix
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-02-28· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Cuffie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-03-19· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-03-15· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Charles
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-03-06· cited 49×
• United States v. Rufus Brown
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-03-01· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Costa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-03-15· cited 45×