6 Massachusetts opinions name it 3 courts 1937–2025 1 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Massachusetts courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
| Case | Followed | Cited |
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IDRIS I. v. HAZEL H.green1 sentence2025See Idris I. v. Hazel H., 100 Mass. App. Ct. 784, 790-791 (2022). | 1 | 1 |
Commonwealth v. Dislergreen1 sentence2008The principles of the rule were reaffirmed recently by the SJC: “[I]t is well established that ‘[i]If the statutory language [affecting a criminal statute could] plausibly be found to be ambiguous,’ the rule of lenity requires the defendant be given ‘the benefit of the ambiguity.’ ” Commonwealth v. Disler, 451 Mass. 216, 228-29 (2008) (internal citations omitted). | 1 | 1 |
Jarosz v. Palmergreen1 sentence2006See Jarosz v. Palmer, 436 Mass. 526, 530 (2002), citing Brookline v. Goldstein, 388 Mass. 443, 447 (1983) (permitting a trial judge to take judicial notice of the records of other courts in a related action when deciding a motion to dismiss). | 1 | 1 |
Town of Brookline v. Goldsteingreen1 sentence2006See Jarosz v. Palmer, 436 Mass. 526, 530 (2002), citing Brookline v. Goldstein, 388 Mass. 443, 447 (1983) (permitting a trial judge to take judicial notice of the records of other courts in a related action when deciding a motion to dismiss). | 1 | 1 |
Commonwealth v. Millergreen1 sentence1992The applicable principles for the defense of entrapment are set forth in Commonwealth v. Shuman, 391 Mass. at 350 -351 (quoting from Perkins, Criminal Law 1031 [2d ed. 1969]): “It is socially desirable for criminals to be apprehended and brought to justice and there is nothing whatever wrong or out of place in setting traps to catch those bent on crime; [but] the state cannot tolerate . . . having its officers, who are charged with the duty of enforcing the law, instigate crime by implanting criminal ideas in innocent minds and thereby bring about offenses that otherwise would never have been | 1 | 1 |
Commonwealth v. Clearygreen1 sentence1937Commonwealth v. Cleary, 172 Mass. 175, 176, 177 . | 1 | 1 |
| Case | Negative | Cited |
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| No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Massachusetts. Read the followed side critically anyway. | ||
| Case | Cited | Years |
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Commonwealth v. Mahar
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1 sentence2002The court, therefore, accepted the principles of rule 806 of the Proposed Massachusetts Rules of Evidence, which states, “the credibility of the declarant may be attacked, and if attacked may be supported, by any evidence which would be admissible for those purposes if declarant had testified as a witness.” Id. at 649 , quoting from Proposed Mass.R.Evid. 806. | 1 | 2002–2002 |
Commonwealth v. Shuman
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2 sentences1992The applicable principles for the defense of entrapment are set forth in Commonwealth v. Shuman, 391 Mass. at 350 -351 (quoting from Perkins, Criminal Law 1031 [2d ed. 1969]): “It is socially desirable for criminals to be apprehended and brought to justice and there is nothing whatever wrong or out of place in setting traps to catch those bent on crime; [but] the state cannot tolerate . . . having its officers, who are charged with the duty of enforcing the law, instigate crime by implanting criminal ideas in innocent minds and thereby bring about offenses that otherwise would never have been 1992The applicable principles for the defense of entrapment are set forth in Commonwealth v. Shuman, 391 Mass. at 350 -351 (quoting from Perkins, Criminal Law 1031 [2d ed. 1969]): “It is socially desirable for criminals to be apprehended and brought to justice and there is nothing whatever wrong or out of place in setting traps to catch those bent on crime; [but] the state cannot tolerate . . . having its officers, who are charged with the duty of enforcing the law, instigate crime by implanting criminal ideas in innocent minds and thereby bring about offenses that otherwise would never have been | 1 | 1992–1992 |
Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.