State Supreme Court / Mass.

Commonwealth v. Mahdi

Decided April 8, 1983. Paul J. Liacos wrote the opinion for the court.

448 N.E.2d 357 · Cited 192 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. Saferian · 315 N.E.2d 878
Commonwealth v. Cobb · 373 N.E.2d 1145
Commonwealth v. Boyd · 326 N.E.2d 320
Commonwealth v. Graziano · 331 N.E.2d 808
Commonwealth v. Soares · 387 N.E.2d 499
Commonwealth v. Johnson · 361 N.E.2d 212
Commonwealth v. Rondeau · 392 N.E.2d 1001
Commonwealth v. Smith · 444 N.E.2d 374
People v. Schindler · 114 Cal. App. 3d 178
Raffel v. United States · 271 U.S. 494
Commonwealth v. Tavares · 430 N.E.2d 1198
Commonwealth v. Shelley · 373 N.E.2d 951
Commonwealth v. Bernier · 267 N.E.2d 636
Commonwealth v. Burke · 159 N.E.2d 856
Commonwealth v. Nordstrom · 103 N.E.2d 711
Commonwealth v. LeBlanc · 299 N.E.2d 719
Commonwealth v. Cole · 402 N.E.2d 55
Commonwealth v. Dunker · 298 N.E.2d 813
Commonwealth v. Harris · 443 N.E.2d 1287

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