Lewis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• a showing that the victim first cursed the defendant and swung her fist at him did not make a prima facie case of justification
• admission of victim’s specific acts of prior violence must be preceded by same three-pronged showing that victim was the assailant, appellant was the assailed, and appellant acted to defend himself
• a showing that the victim first cursed the defendant and swung her fist at him did not make a prima facie case of justification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Collier v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-07· cited 73×
• Lance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 70×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-07-16· cited 55×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 44×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 18×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 17×
• Felder v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 15×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-20· cited 5×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-01· cited 5×
• Milner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 5×
• Benton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-27· cited 1×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-12-01· cited 743×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 147×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 68×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-02-19· cited 37×
• Eagle v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 28×
• Chester v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-06· cited 22×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-10-03· cited 6×