Commonwealth v. Watkins

How courts have described this case

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

• approving “a charge defining reasonable doubt in accordance with the Webster model”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Valliere
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-07-25· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-01-26· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-12-11· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Ortiz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-01-08· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. O'Brian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-01-10· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Berthold
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-03-10· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-02-12· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Holman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-06-06· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Lapointe
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-09-12· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. McKinnon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-03-14· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-05-24· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Kelly
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-01-27· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Proulx
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-08-16

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Victor v. Nebraska
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-16· cited 1,656×
• Cage v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1990-11-13· cited 1,172×
• Commonwealth v. Tavares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-01-29· cited 315×
• Commonwealth v. Ferreira
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-22· cited 148×
• Richard Dunn v. Everett I. Perrin, Jr., Laurence Black v. Edward Cox
  First Circuit· 1978-02-02· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-06-11· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Conceicao
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-02-28· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Lanoue
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-30· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-06· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Ferreira
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-06· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Watkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-08-27· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Fielding
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-09-15· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Little
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-05· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Therrien
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-10-14· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Gagliardi
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-08-04· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Pinckney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-01-19· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Beverly
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-08-12· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Lanoue
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-12-20· cited 42×