Culverson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that an original aggressor has the duty to retreat
• holding that a person has no duty to retreat before using deadly force if he is not the original aggressor and if a reasonable person in the non-aggressor’s position would believe that the assailant is about to cause him lethal or serious bodily harm
• holding that “a person, who is not 25 the original aggressor, has no duty to retreat before using deadly force, if a reasonable 26 person in the position of the non-aggressor would believe that his assailant is about to kill him or cause him serious bodily harm”
• recognizing apparent danger theory of self-defense
• “A juror should not be expected to be a legal expert.”
• jury instruction was unclear or misleading regarding permitted use of deadly force in self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Crawford v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 230×
• Sharma v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-10-31· cited 37×
• Vallery v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-05-17· cited 31×
• Schoels v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-10-27· cited 26×
• Earl v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1995-11-01· cited 25×
• Pineda v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-05-04· cited 24×
• Tanksley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-08-28· cited 22×
• Santana v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2006-12-28· cited 8×
• Donald v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-04-03· cited 2×
• Conway (Gary) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-09-12
• Smith (Christopher) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-04-15

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1921-05-16· cited 176×
• State v. Abbott
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1961-11-06· cited 67×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-05-15· cited 46×
• Haynes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 41×
• State v. Austin
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1983-04-08· cited 37×
• People v. Davis
  California Supreme Court· 1965-12-07· cited 35×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1968-07-05· cited 14×
• Bartmess v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1986-03-27· cited 8×