Jacobs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is unquestioned that one is privileged to use force, even deadly force, in self-defense if legitimately and reasonably in fear of suffering death or serious bodily harm”
• Defense of self-defense applies to all offenses from simple to first degree murder
• Defense of self-defense applies to all offenses from simple to first degree murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Richmond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-04-26· cited 63×
• Faulkner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-03-09· cited 29×
• State v. David G. Buckley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-05-27· cited 13×
• In Re Lavar D.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-12-30· cited 4×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-25· cited 201×
• State v. Grady
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-10-07· cited 72×
• Squire v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-23· cited 19×