Johnson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• Juvenile Court had no jurisdiction over juvenile who committed crime before his seventeenth birthday, where proceedings against him were not completed prior to his eighteenth birthday
• “Nor may we infer an intent by the Legislature to permit an extension of jurisdiction [in G. L. c. 119, § 72] by resort to the concept of tolling”
• “It is a first principle that the jurisdictions of the several lower courts of this Commonwealth, and therefore their powers, are limited to those granted by the Constitution of the Commonwealth or by the Legislature”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Frizado v. Frizado
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-15· cited 125×
• Santiago v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-04-14· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Mogelinski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-12-23· cited 43×
• CHARLES C. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-04-20· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Mercier
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-08-07
• Ulla U., a juvenile v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2020-07-21

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Crocker v. Justices of the Superior Court
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1911-03-02· cited 154×
• Police Commissioner v. Municipal Court of Dorchester District
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-03-16· cited 99×
• A Juvenile v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-05-12· cited 30×
• Department of Youth Services v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-12-22· cited 25×
• D'URBANO v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-02-12· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-06-24· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-11-09· cited 14×