McClellan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that victim’s propensity for violence was “obviously” not an essential element of self-defense because “[o]ne might plead self-defense after having killed the most gentle soul who ever lived”
• concluding that victim's propensity for violence was \obviously\ not an essential element of self-defense because \[o]ne might plead self-defense after having killed the most gentle soul who ever lived\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jenewicz
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2008-01-28· cited 184×
• Commonwealth v. Adjutant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-14· cited 78×
• State v. Rainer
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-06-26· cited 33×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1997-09-12· cited 31×
• Solomon v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-01-22· cited 27×
• Halfacre v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-10-11· cited 22×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1984-05-08· cited 17×
• State v. Lehman
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1980-05-15· cited 16×
• Razorback Cab of Fort Smith, Inc. v. Lingo
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-01-22· cited 14×
• Schnarr v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2017-01-26· cited 11×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-09-25· cited 9×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1981-05-13· cited 8×
• Brown v. Conway
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-12-11· cited 7×
• West v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-02-12· cited 6×
• Shawn Rainer v. Wendy Kelley
  Eighth Circuit· 2017-08-01· cited 4×
• Fleming v. STIFOLTER
  W.D. Tennessee· 2009-09-21· cited 3×
• McMullin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2016-03-30· cited 3×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2018-04-18· cited 1×
• SANTIAGO VASQUEZ, JR. v. STATE OF ARKANSAS
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2025-09-25

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ozan Lumber Company v. McNeely
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1949-02-14· cited 44×
• Flake v. Thompson, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1970-12-21· cited 21×