Commonwealth v. Vasquez

Decided March 26, 2010. Francis X. Spina wrote the opinion for the court.

456 Mass. 350 · Cited 127 times

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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. Verde · 444 Mass. 279
• Commonwealth v. Tyree · 455 Mass. 676
• Commonwealth v. Dagraca · 447 Mass. 546
• Commonwealth v. Dawson · 504 N.E.2d 1056
• Commonwealth v. Mahdi · 448 N.E.2d 357
• Stonehill College v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination · 441 Mass. 549
• Commonwealth v. Torres · 420 Mass. 479
• Commonwealth v. McDuffee · 398 N.E.2d 463
• Commonwealth v. Connolly · 454 Mass. 808
• Commonwealth v. Sinnott · 507 N.E.2d 699
• Commonwealth v. Farley · 443 Mass. 740
• State v. O'MALEY · 932 A.2d 1
• Commonwealth v. Doherty · 578 N.E.2d 411
• United States v. Miller · 471 U.S. 130
• Whorton v. Bockting · 549 U.S. 406
• People v. Geier · 161 P.3d 104
• People v. Hillery · 401 P.2d 382
• Black v. State · 816 S.W.2d 350
• Commonwealth v. Amirault · 424 Mass. 618
• Commonwealth v. Stokes · 374 N.E.2d 87
• Commonwealth v. Cohen · 589 N.E.2d 289
• Dziokonski v. Babineau · 380 N.E.2d 1295
• State v. Dedman · 102 P.3d 628
• Royal Indemnity Co. v. Blakely · 372 Mass. 86
• Commonwealth v. Vinnie · 428 Mass. 161

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• Commonwealth v. Rivas · 77 Mass. App. Ct. 210
• Commonwealth v. King · 77 Mass. App. Ct. 189
• Commonwealth v. Ramsey · 466 Mass. 489
• Commonwealth v. Durand · 457 Mass. 574
• Commonwealth v. Perez · 80 Mass. App. Ct. 271
• Commonwealth v. Melendez-Diaz · 460 Mass. 238
• Commonwealth v. Lezynski · 466 Mass. 113
• Commonwealth v. Whitaker · 460 Mass. 409
• Commonwealth v. McNulty · 458 Mass. 305
• Commonwealth v. Montoya · 464 Mass. 566
• State v. Jeffrey Moten · 64 A.3d 1232
• Commonwealth v. Munoz · 461 Mass. 126
• Commonwealth v. Montrond · 477 Mass. 127
• Commonwealth v. Francis · 474 Mass. 816
• Commonwealth v. Barbosa · 461 Mass. 431
• Commonwealth v. Romero · 80 Mass. App. Ct. 791
• Commonwealth v. Barbosa · 457 Mass. 773

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