Cowan v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a deadly weapon must be an object extrinsic to the human body
• noting this “fundamental identity of the concepts of assault with a deadly weapon and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury”
• “One may commit an assault without making actual physical contact with. the person of the victim; .,. whether the victim in fact suffers any harm is immaterial.”
• “One may commit an assault without making actual physical contact with the person of the victim; . . . whether the victim in fact suffers any harm is immaterial.”
• hands and feet not deadly or dangerous weap- ons

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).