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.

• holding that evidence of attack by third parties not admissible
• justification defense assessed on whether circumstances would have “excited the fears of an objective reasonable person”
• justification defense assessed on whether circumstances would have \excited the fears of an objective reasonable person\
• “When assessing claims of justification, the subjective fears of a particular defendant are irrelevant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-05-09· cited 58×
• Sedlak v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 37×
• State v. Hodges
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 21×
• State v. Bunn
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 18×
• O'Connell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21· cited 15×
• Heyward v. Humphrey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-02· cited 8×
• In the Matter of Woodard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-04-12· cited 5×
• Rammage v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-01-27· cited 5×
• Luke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-03· cited 3×
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  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-21
• State v. Craig Lynn Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-10

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 147×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1972-02-11· cited 63×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-12-03· cited 37×
• Clenney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-06-10· cited 15×