Commonwealth v. Donahue

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• person may use reasonable force to protect his or her possession of real or personal property
• \[A] man may defend or regain his momentarily interrupted possession by the use of reasonable force\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rogers
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-04-08· cited 41×
• State v. Dooley
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1894-05-08· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Haddock
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-01-28· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Lannan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1891-02-25· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Galvin
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-12-11· cited 19×
• Maddran v. Mullendore
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1968-10-01· cited 15×
• Heminway v. Heminway
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1890-03-03· cited 13×
• Spelina v. Sporry
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1935-03-29· cited 8×
• Trecy v. Jefts
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1889-05-10· cited 7×
• Drew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1911-08-16· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Ogarro
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2019-07-24
• Commonwealth v. Pitters
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-12-07
• Commonwealth v. Delgallo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-04-19

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Champ v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1859-07-16· cited 68×
• Hodgeden v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1846-03-15· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. McDuffy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1879-04-08· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Lynn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1877-09-04· cited 3×
• Andre v. Johnson
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1843-05-15· cited 2×