Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Overview

Works:	1,379 works in 2,937 publications in 1 language and 47,258 library holdings
Genres:	Trials, litigation, etc Trial and arbitral proceedings Court decisions and opinions History Church history Controversial literature Rules Biography
Roles:	Composer, Editor, cou
Classifications:	KF213.H6, 340.0973

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Massachusetts

Judge sentences : tales from the bench by Dermot Meagher( )
Representative opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes( Book )
Lemuel Shaw : chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1830-1860 by Frederic Hathaway Chase( Book )
Massachusetts legal history : a journal of the Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society( )
A short history of the treatment that Dr. Samuel Stearns hath met with in Massachusetts, since the commencement of hostilities between Great-Britain and her colonies : Exhibiting the troubles he has met with by reason of his loyalty, and the appearance of false evidence against him. : [Three lines in Latin] by Samuel Stearns( )

The genius of Lemuel Shaw : expounder of the common law by Elijah Adlow( Book )
The Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, 1692-1942 by Massachusetts Bar Association( Book )
The History of the law in Massachusetts : the Supreme Judicial Court, 1692-1992 by Robert G Bone( Book )
Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society journal by Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society (Mass.)( )
Rules of the Supreme Judicial Court, and sundry acts regulating the admission of attornies by Massachusetts( Book )
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord one thousand & eight hundred : an act in addition to an act, entitled, "An act establishing a supreme judicial court within this commonwealth by Massachusetts( )
Salem, December 10, 1782 : Gentlemen, A bill has passed the House of Representatives, by a small majority, to remove the July Court of Common Pleas from this town to Ipswich by Salem (Mass.)( )
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. : Vol. VII. : Containing the cases from September term, 1810, in Hampshire, to September term, 1811, in Berkshire, inclusive. by Massachusetts( Book )
Rules for the regulation of practice in chancery in Massachusetts by Massachusetts( )
Reinventing justice, 2022 : report of the Chief Justice's Commission on the Future of the Courts by Massachusetts( Book )
An Act Establishing Two Additional Terms of the Supreme Judicial Court : and Dispensing with the Attendance of All the Justices at Certain Other Terms by Massachusetts( Book )
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Ipswich ... on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1810 by Ipswich (Mass.)( Book )
An Act for the More Convenient Administration of Justice in the Supreme Judicial Court by Massachusetts( Book )
An Act Respecting the Production of Copies on Appeals and Reviews, Brought Before the Supreme Judicial Court by Massachusetts( Book )
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, containing the cases from June 1807 to the end of the year by Massachusetts( Book )

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Most widely held works by Massachusetts

Town officer, or, Laws of Massachusetts relative to the duties of municipal officers : together with a digest of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court upon those subjects by Isaac Goodwin( )

25 editions published between 1805 and 1834 in English and held by 830 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Report of the trial of Abner Rogers, Jr., indicted for the murder of Charles Lincoln, Jr., late warden of the Massachusetts State Prison : before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, holden at Boston on Tuesday, January 30, 1844 by Abner Rogers( )

9 editions published between 1844 and 2007 in English and held by 545 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bigelow and Bemis were counsel for Rogers. While a prisoner, Rogers stabbed the warden at Charlestown prison to death. He was acquitted on the ground of insanity, but committed suicide a few weeks after the trial by throwing himself out of a window. The case is significant for its early and successful presentation of the insanity defense

Equity pleadings and practice in the courts of Massachusetts : with frequent reference to the practice in other jurisdictions : with an appendix of forms by P. Emory Aldrich( )

11 editions published between 1885 and 1896 in English and held by 539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Report of the trial of Prof. John W. Webster, indicted for the murder of Dr. George Parkman, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, holden at Boston, on Tuesday, March 19, 1850 by John White Webster( )

16 editions published between 1850 and 1990 in English and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The judicial opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes : constitutional opinions, selected excerpts and epigrams as given in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1883-1902) by Oliver Wendell Holmes( Book )

10 editions published between 1940 and 2008 in English and held by 496 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Report of the case of John W. Webster, indicted for the murder of George Parkman, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts : including the hearing on the petition for a writ of error, the prisoner's confessional statements and application for a commutation of sentence, and an appendix containing several interesting matters never before published by John White Webster( )

14 editions published between 1850 and 2007 in English and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A voice from Leverett Street Prison, or, The life, trial, and confession of Simeon L. Crockett, who was executed for arson, March 16, 1836 by Simeon L Crockett( )

11 editions published between 1836 and 2008 in English and held by 454 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The trial of Moses Adams, high-sheriff of the county of Hancock : before the Supreme Judicial Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, on an indictment for the murder of his wife by Moses Adams( )

17 editions published between 1815 and 2007 in English and held by 404 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

John Bulfinch record of testimony given in the case of Moses Adams of Ellsworth, Maine, charged with murdering Mary Adams by using an axe to break her neck. Includes the charge to the jury but not closing arguments

Trial of George Crowninshield, J.J. Knapp, Jun. and John Francis Knapp : for the murder of Capt. Joseph White, of Salem, on the night of the sixth of April, 1830 by John Francis Knapp( )

8 editions published between 1830 and 2007 in English and held by 380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains only the first trial of John Francis Knapp, where the jury disagreed

Trial of Thomas O. Selfridge, attorney at law, before the Hon. Isaac Parker, Esquire, for killing Charles Austin, on the public exchange, in Boston, August 4, 1806 by Thomas O Selfridge( Book )

17 editions published between 1806 and 2007 in English and held by 377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, containing the cases from June 1807 to the end of the year by Massachusetts( Book )

35 editions published between 1807 and 1981 in English and held by 366 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Massachusetts reports : cases argued and determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts by Massachusetts( )

in English and held by 362 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The rule in Minot's case again : as restated with variations by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts by John Osborne Sargent( )

4 editions published in 1871 in English and held by 358 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A charge delivered to the grand jury for the County of Essex : at the Supreme Judicial Court, held at Ipswich, May term, 1832 by Massachusetts( )

9 editions published between 1832 and 2013 in English and held by 354 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Report of the trial of Leavitt Alley : indicted for the murder of Abijah Ellis, in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts by Leavitt Alley( )

9 editions published between 1875 and 2007 in English and held by 341 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, February 6, 1811 by Massachusetts( )

9 editions published in 1811 in English and held by 337 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Report of the case of Geo. C. Hersey, indicted for the murder of Betsy Frances Tirrell, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts : including the hearing on the motion in arrest of judgment, the prisoner's petition for a commutation of sentence, the death warrant, officer's return upon it, and the confession by George C Hersey( )

11 editions published between 1862 and 1997 in English and held by 329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Trial of Professor John W. Webster for the murder of Doctor George Parkman by John White Webster( )

13 editions published between 1850 and 2007 in English and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The trial of Alpheus Livermore and Samuel Angier : before the Supreme Judicial Court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, upon an indictment for the murder of Nicholas John Crevay, an Indian ... by Alpheus Livermore( )

16 editions published between 1812 and 2010 in English and held by 319 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts : in a case relating to the sacramental furniture of a church in Brookfield : with the entire arguments of Hon. Samuel Hoar, Jun. for the plaintiff, and of Hon. Lewis Strong for the defendant by Massachusetts( )

10 editions published between 1832 and 2007 in English and held by 315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

P. 48 signed : Octavius Pickering, reporter, &c

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