Commonwealth v. Wallace

How courts have described this case

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

• admitting more detailed first complaint testimony on defendant's sexual misconduct where complainant only remembered disclosing that \bad things\ had occurred
• interpreting rape statute to mean the Commonwealth must prove that the defendant compelled the victim to submit by force and against his will
• defendant’s unbroken course of conduct of regularly raping victim as a child could be viewed as designed to instill fear in victim
• jurors entitled to credit victim's testimony that he \feared the consequences of resisting the defendant's sexual advances [even if the specific consequences he feared were not spelled out]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-05-07· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Newcomb
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-09-28· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Dumas
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-04-24· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Dale
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2014-08-25· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Moniz
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-06-17· cited 2×
• State v. Russell G. Jones
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2011-09-12
• Commonwealth v. Rentas
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-10-19
• Dumas v. Marchilli
  D. Massachusetts· 2017-03-03
• Commonwealth v. Hraiz
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2026-04-23