Commonwealth v. Turner

How courts have described this case

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

• “The offense is against the public morals, which the commission of cruel and barbarous acts tends to corrupt.”
• evidence sufficient to go to jury where defendant custodian of fox let it loose to be hunted by dogs, who \caught [fox] and mangled it\
• captive fox is an “animal” under earlier version of statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Waller
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-09-20· cited 61×
• United States v. Stevens
  Third Circuit· 2008-07-18· cited 28×
• State v. Buford
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1958-11-19· cited 25×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1905-06-12· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Higgins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1931-11-30· cited 18×
• Animal Legal Defense Fund Boston, Inc. v. Provimi Veal Corp.
  D. Massachusetts· 1986-01-14· cited 14×
• State v. . Porter
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 1893-02-05· cited 11×
• People ex rel. Freel v. Downs
  New York City Magistrates' Court· 1911-10-15· cited 4×
• Knox v. Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-08-31· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Linhares
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-11-15· cited 4×
• Pennsylvania Co. for Ins., etc. v. Commissioner
  Board of Tax Appeals· 1932-04-18· cited 1×
• Knox v. MASS. SOCY. FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-08-31
• Beamer v. State
  Ohio Circuit Courts· 1901-01-15
• Beamer v. State
  Ohio Circuit Courts· 1901-07-01
• Commonwealth v. Russo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2023-09-14
• Commonwealth v. Russo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2024-07-15

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Brigham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-11-15· cited 2×