McKnight v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• in order to justify a homicide on the ground of self defense, the situation must be such as to induce a reasonably prudent person that danger was imminent and that there was a real necessity for the taking of life

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-06-28· cited 43×
• Terry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-04-10· cited 23×
• LaPolla v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-04-01· cited 20×
• Phillips v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-11-08· cited 15×
• State v. Bobbitt
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-11-07· cited 11×
• State v. Smith
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-10-09· cited 11×
• Evans v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-06-19· cited 6×
• Andreasen v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-06-14· cited 6×
• Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-09-19· cited 5×
• Andrews v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-03-28· cited 4×
• State v. Williams
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-07-29· cited 4×
• Fletcher v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-08-31· cited 4×
• State v. Bobbitt
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-10-07· cited 3×
• City of Boca Raton v. Parreault
  Palm Beach County Court· 1977-09-19· cited 1×
• State v. Williams
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-11-10

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Darty v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1964-03-04· cited 38×
• Garmise v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-04-08· cited 38×
• State v. Coles
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-12-05· cited 28×
• Gil v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-07-25· cited 15×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-05-15· cited 7×