State Supreme Court / Mass.

Commonwealth v. Bohannon

Decided July 25, 1978. Ruth Abrams wrote the opinion for the court.

378 N.E.2d 987 · Cited 176 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Commonwealth v. Graziano · 331 N.E.2d 808
Commonwealth v. Franklin · 318 N.E.2d 469
Commonwealth v. Cheek · 373 N.E.2d 1161
Commonwealth v. Ahearn · 346 N.E.2d 907
State v. DeLawder · 344 A.2d 446
United States v. Nixon · 418 U.S. 683
Commonwealth v. Freeman · 227 N.E.2d 3
Commonwealth v. Flynn · 287 N.E.2d 420
Commonwealth v. Chase · 363 N.E.2d 1105
Commonwealth v. Caine · 318 N.E.2d 901
Commonwealth v. Harris · 358 N.E.2d 982
Commonwealth v. Clifford · 372 N.E.2d 1267
Commonwealth v. Conroy · 133 N.E.2d 246
Commonwealth v. Binkiewicz · 175 N.E.2d 473
Commonwealth v. Carr · 369 N.E.2d 970
Commonwealth v. Michel · 327 N.E.2d 720
Commonwealth v. Ferrara · 330 N.E.2d 837
Commonwealth v. White · 325 N.E.2d 575
First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. State Tax Commission · 372 Mass. 478
Pires v. Commonwealth · 370 N.E.2d 1365
Commonwealth v. Manning · 327 N.E.2d 715
Commonwealth v. Barton · 326 N.E.2d 885

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Roundtree v. United States · 581 A.2d 315
Commonwealth v. Bohannon · 434 N.E.2d 163
Commonwealth v. Rathburn · 532 N.E.2d 691
Clinebell v. Commonwealth · 368 S.E.2d 263
State v. Kelley · 229 Conn. 557
State v. Walton · 715 N.E.2d 824
Tibbs v. Allen · 486 F. Supp. 2d 188
Miller v. State · 779 P.2d 87
State v. Sullivan · 244 Conn. 640
State v. Long · 140 S.W.3d 27
Commonwealth v. Costa · 69 Mass. App. Ct. 823
Commonwealth v. Sherry · 437 N.E.2d 224
Covington v. State · 703 P.2d 436
Commonwealth v. Sperrazza · 396 N.E.2d 449
Nadworny v. Fair · 685 F. Supp. 20
Commonwealth v. Kelly · 57 Mass. App. Ct. 201
State v. West · 95 Haw. 484
State v. Boggs · 63 Ohio St. 3d 418
Smith v. State · 377 S.E.2d 158
Commonwealth v. Joyce · 415 N.E.2d 181
State v. Wyrick · 62 S.W.3d 751
State v. Demos · 619 P.2d 968
Commonwealth v. Scanlon · 592 N.E.2d 1279
Commonwealth v. Ruffen · 507 N.E.2d 684
Commonwealth v. McDonough · 511 N.E.2d 551

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