Commonwealth v. Porro

Decided December 14, 2010. Ralph D. Gants wrote the opinion for the court.

458 Mass. 526 · Cited 97 times

Official text

Read the full opinion (CourtListener)

We don’t host opinion text or publish a summary of this ruling — read the official public-domain text for the court’s holding and reasoning, and verify against the primary source.

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. Walker · 426 Mass. 301
• Commonwealth v. Donlan · 436 Mass. 329
• Commonwealth v. Vick · 454 Mass. 418
• Commonwealth v. Thayer · 634 N.E.2d 576
• Commonwealth v. Santos · 440 Mass. 281
• Commonwealth v. Burno · 487 N.E.2d 1366
• Commonwealth v. Jones · 416 N.E.2d 502
• Commonwealth v. Woodward · 427 Mass. 659
• Commonwealth v. D'Amour · 428 Mass. 725
• Commonwealth v. Nardone · 546 N.E.2d 359
• Commonwealth v. Egerton · 487 N.E.2d 481
• Commonwealth v. Gorassi · 432 Mass. 244
• Commonwealth v. Barbosa · 421 Mass. 547
• Commonwealth v. Staines · 441 Mass. 521
• Commonwealth v. King · 445 Mass. 217
• Commonwealth v. Rodriquez · 300 N.E.2d 192
• Commonwealth v. Campbell · 226 N.E.2d 211
• Commonwealth v. Richards · 293 N.E.2d 854
• Commonwealth v. Burke · 457 N.E.2d 622
• Costarelli v. Commonwealth · 373 N.E.2d 1183
• Commonwealth v. Linton · 456 Mass. 534
• Commonwealth v. Burke · 467 N.E.2d 846
• Commonwealth v. Melton · 436 Mass. 291
• Commonwealth v. Stokes · 440 Mass. 741
• Commonwealth v. Van Bell · 455 Mass. 408

Cited by

Later opinions in our collection that cite this decision.

• Commonwealth v. Russell · 470 Mass. 464
• Commonwealth v. Roderiques · 462 Mass. 415
• Commonwealth v. Orbin O., a juvenile · 89 N.E.3d 1151
• Commonwealth v. Michael W. Tyson
• State of Missouri v. Bruce Pierce · 433 S.W.3d 390
• Commonwealth v. Kelly · 470 Mass. 682
• Commonwealth v. Thompson · 89 Mass. App. Ct. 456
• State of Missouri v. Denford Jackson · 433 S.W.3d 424
• Commonwealth v. Suero · 465 Mass. 215
• Commonwealth v. Arias · 78 Mass. App. Ct. 429
• Commonwealth v. Torres · 468 Mass. 286
• SKANDHA v. Savoie · 811 F. Supp. 2d 535
• Commonwealth v. Walker · 460 Mass. 590
• Commonwealth v. Eberhart · 461 Mass. 809
• Commonwealth v. Wynton W. · 459 Mass. 745
• Commonwealth v. Traylor · 472 Mass. 260
• Commonwealth v. Dorvil · 472 Mass. 1
• Commonwealth v. Beal · 474 Mass. 341
• Commonwealth v. Daley · 463 Mass. 620
• Commonwealth v. Labadie · 467 Mass. 81
• Commonwealth v. The Ngoc Tran · 471 Mass. 179

Explore from here

Ralph D. Gants’s Judicial Record · Mass. · How we source opinions

Source: opinion metadata, authorship, and citation counts from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data (public domain). Data last verified 2026-07-09. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).