Patton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing for failure to instruct on necessity where the defendant argued that he had no alternative but to retrieve a gun where a street vendor was “savagely beating” the defendant’s brother
• remanding for a new trial due to the failure to give a requested jury instruction, noting that principles of double jeopardy do not preclude retrial so long as the State presented sufficient evidence to support the conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• John Hernandez v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2015-11-10· cited 32×
• Poe v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-09-17· cited 9×
• Livermore v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-11-06· cited 7×
• Dora v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-02-12· cited 6×
• Springer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-12-03· cited 5×
• John Hernandez v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-17
• Jeremy D. Washington v. State of Indiana (mem .dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-09-16
• Jerry D. McBride v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-05-12

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Pena
  Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California· 1983-09-16· cited 35×
• Dozier v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-04-21· cited 33×
• Toops v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-11-30· cited 33×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-06-28· cited 17×
• Judge v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-12-18· cited 8×
• Grundy v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-06-03· cited 6×
• Shrum v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-05-09· cited 5×