Ray v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• judge’s statement at hearing that he was inclined to rule in one way did not support inference that he had foreclosed other alternatives

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Spencer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-05-02· cited 43×
• O'Connell v. Houser
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-10-28
• Commonwealth v. Firmin
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-02-10
• Commonwealth v. Flood
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2015-04-22
• Nicholas Sicellon v. Commonwealth / Jerion Moore v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-02-05
• Karen Read v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-02-11

Cites

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

• Arizona v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-21· cited 2,314×
• Oregon v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 2,097×
• United States v. Perez
  Supreme Court· 1824-03-23· cited 1,814×
• Illinois v. Somerville
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-27· cited 1,368×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriquez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-08-06· cited 183×
• Blueford v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 2012-05-24· cited 148×
• United States v. Ramon Hernandez-Guardado,defendant-Appellant. United States of America v. Dario Jimenez-Frias
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-09-07· cited 142×
• Commonwealth v. Connor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-21· cited 138×
• Jerry Allen Arnold v. D. J. McCarthy Superintendent, California Men's Colony
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-01-13· cited 116×
• Plummer v. Rothwax
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-10-18· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Andrews
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-11-29· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Semedo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-02-04· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Rollins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1968-10-31· cited 44×
• Thames v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-06-12· cited 44×
• United States v. Razmilovic
  Second Circuit· 2007-10-17· cited 34×
• United States v. Martin Byrski, Michael Farmer, Anthony Fucalaro, Eugene Hornowski, Kevin McNab James J. Villalpando, and Mathew Wilson
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-08-05· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Steward
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-10-10· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Cassidy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-05-16· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Jenkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-01-10· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-05-05· cited 15×