Evans v. Potter

How courts have described this case

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

• “[b]oth the circumstances of the utterance and the literal language must be considered”
• “Even when the literal language appears to con- stitute a threat, ‘the surrounding circumstances may so belie or contradict the language of the declaration as to reveal it to be a mere jest or idle banter’”
• “Even when the literal language appears to constitute a threat, ‘the surrounding circumstances may so belie or contradict the language of the declaration as to reveal it to be a mere jest or idle banter* ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).