Commonwealth vs. a Juvenile

How courts have described this case

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

• new trial ordered where defendant’s right to a jury of twelve was substantial and actual prejudice was impossible to establish
• a juvenile’s record is generally barred in a court proceeding in which the juvenile is a witness in the absence of “countervailing constitutional considerations”
• \The burden is on the defendant to show prejudice.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Goodwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-12-16· cited 292×
• Commonwealth v. Cinelli
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-16· cited 179×
• Commonwealth v. Hood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-07-05· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Fuller
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-11-21· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Wood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-06-22· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1990-12-20· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Edgerly
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-05-21· cited 30×
• Commonwealth vs. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-11-13· cited 28×
• Sheridan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-05-30· cited 14×
• Blum v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-14· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Dupree
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-09-02· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Bockman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-11-12· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Desroches
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-10-26· cited 4×
• Tate
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-03-09· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Godfroy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-15· cited 4×
• Lane
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-07-22· cited 1×
• COMMONWEALTH v. KHALID KALILA.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2023-01-11· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Williams v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,740×
• Thompson v. Utah
  Supreme Court· 1898-04-25· cited 472×
• Ballew v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-21· cited 316×
• Commonwealth v. Bohannon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-07-25· cited 176×
• Commonwealth v. De Christoforo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-12-07· cited 147×
• Commonwealth v. Greenberg
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-07-16· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Montecalvo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-02-21· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-04· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Bellino
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-01-08· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Hartford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-12-02· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-01· cited 66×
• Hartgraves v. Don Cartage Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Tabor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-12-13· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Ferrara
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-06-20· cited 53×
• State v. Maresca
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1977-09-06· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Guerro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-06-19· cited 35×
• Searle v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1909-11-11· cited 35×
• Bourne v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1972-05-06· cited 34×
• Opinions of the Justices to the Governor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-06-29· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Santos
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-12-29· cited 25×