Bennett v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that bail bondsman may not shoot accused to prevent his escape by flight, but he may, to overcome declared, open, and armed resistance to execution of warrant, use such force as may be reasonably necessary to effect the arrest
• bondsman, like police officers, may use only such force as is reasonably necessary to effect arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Collins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-02-07· cited 40×
• State v. Nugent
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-05-06· cited 26×
• Bailey v. Kenney
  D. Kansas· 1992-04-16· cited 17×
• Kirby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-03-07· cited 14×
• Smith v. Holeman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-23· cited 13×
• Harper v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-08-18· cited 5×
• Buchanan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-04-28· cited 4×
• Haygood v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15· cited 3×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-15· cited 2×
• McCoy v. Johnson
  N.D. Georgia· 1997-03-31· cited 2×
• Attorney General Opinion No.
  Kansas Attorney General Reports· 1995-08-30

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-30· cited 136×
• Steve M. Solomon, Jr., Inc. v. Edgar
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1955-05-31· cited 102×
• Kelly v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-03· cited 61×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1905-01-26· cited 31×
• Caito v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-02-08· cited 30×
• Tookes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-07-15· cited 13×
• Central of Georgia Railroad v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-06· cited 12×
• Clark v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1889-03-25· cited 5×
• Newkirk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1938-04-14· cited 5×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-10-09· cited 4×