Mitchell v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding defendant could not assert self-defense after first verbally fighting with the victim and then following the victim outside onto a public street
• “[T]he degree of initiative appellants had taken in creating the confrontation precluded a claim of self-defense”

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Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Howard v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1995-03-30· cited 44×
• Thomas v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1992-01-28· cited 44×
• Marshall v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1992-06-26· cited 32×
• Reed v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1990-12-28· cited 26×
• Harper v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1992-05-12· cited 21×
• Frost v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1992-12-30· cited 20×
• Brandon Andrews v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2015-10-22· cited 12×
• Marquet Bryant and Robert B. Hagood v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2014-06-19· cited 11×
• In re D.T.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2009-07-30· cited 9×
• Cooper v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1986-07-28· cited 8×
• DEONTE J. BRYANT & TERRANCE M. BUSH v. UNITED STATES
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2016-11-03· cited 8×
• Sequarn Tibbs v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2015-01-15· cited 1×
• In Re Dt
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2009-07-30
• Peyton v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2022-07-21

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Watts v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-07-28· cited 398×
• Brown v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1921-05-16· cited 176×
• United States v. Bennie L. Peterson
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-11-05· cited 83×
• Laney v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 36×
• Nowlin v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-01-10· cited 27×
• Josey v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1943-03-31· cited 27×
• Larry A. Rowe v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1966-12-01· cited 22×
• United States v. James Taylor
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-08-04· cited 22×
• Meredith v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1975-08-07· cited 18×
• John Curko v. William Spencer & Son, Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1961-09-11· cited 17×
• Gant v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1951-09-20· cited 7×