Mayes 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 it was the factfinder’s duty to determine whether there was an immediate causal connection between the defendant’s possession of an unlicensed firearm and the victim’s death
• firing of five shots while the victim was on the ground refuted self-defense claim
• holding issue properly submitted to jury
• “A literal application of the contemporaneous crime exception would nullify claims for self-defense in a variety of circumstances and produce absurd results in the process.”
• “A literal application of the contemporaneous crime exception would nullify claims for self-defense in a variety of circumstances and produce absurd results in the process.”
• whether an “immediate causal connection” between the two crimes exists and bars a claim of self-defense is a question left to the factfinder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

55 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Brown v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-01-07· cited 120×
• Bolin v. Wingert
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-03-11· cited 112×
• Kevin Charles Isom v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2015-05-20· cited 80×
• N.D.F. v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-10-07· cited 51×
• Lisa J. Kane v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2012-10-30· cited 45×
• Randolph v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-02-10· cited 41×
• Randolph v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-09-28· cited 35×
• Pennington v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-02-04· cited 33×
• John Aaron Shoultz III v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-08-21· cited 26×
• Burnside v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-12-14· cited 21×
• Dillard v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-05-18· cited 21×
• Lampkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-11-22· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-10-22· cited 20×
• Meeker v. Indiana Parole Board
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-08-29· cited 18×
• Zachary L. Lewis v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-04-28· cited 15×
• Billy Russell v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2013-11-12· cited 12×
• Phillip Griffin v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-10-23· cited 9×
• Simmons v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-06-03· cited 6×
• Morgan v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-12-05· cited 6×
• Joshua Sage v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-12-05· cited 5×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hammons v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 174×
• Mitchem v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-05· cited 132×
• Miller v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-11-18· cited 129×
• Roche v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-30· cited 125×
• Wallace v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-23· cited 92×
• Thacker v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-04-16· cited 90×
• Benefiel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-09-29· cited 70×
• Birdsong v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-04· cited 65×
• Battles v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-11-24· cited 62×
• Sales v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-02-07· cited 61×
• State v. Doris
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1908-03-03· cited 47×
• Schlegel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1958-05-15· cited 46×
• Fields v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-05-09· cited 46×
• Cooper v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-11-25· cited 21×
• Adkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-01-05· cited 20×
• Harvey v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-06-30· cited 19×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-05-08· cited 11×
• Bryant v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1886-05-25· cited 10×