People v. Couch

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that, in leaving murder undefined, the Legislature imported the common law’s definition of murder into our statutes
• a robber or other wrongdoer engaged in felonious conduct has no privilege of self-defense
• Garner “did not ‘automatically’ modify this state’s criminal law with respect to the use of deadly force to apprehend a fleeing felon”; “the power to define conduct as a state criminal offense lies with the individual states, not with the . . . United States Supreme Court”
• separate opinion of Archer, J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Reese
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2012-05-14· cited 448×
• People v. Riddle
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2002-07-31· cited 278×
• People v. Pinkney
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2018-05-01· cited 80×
• People v. Kevorkian
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1994-12-13· cited 68×
• People v. Perkins
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2003-06-18· cited 63×
• People v. Harding
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2006-04-07· cited 53×
• State v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-08-16· cited 39×
• People v. Minor
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1995-10-06· cited 30×
• People v. Reeves
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1995-01-31· cited 25×
• State v. Cooney
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-08-28· cited 24×
• Heindlmeyer v. Ottawa County Concealed Weapons Licensing Board
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2005-12-08· cited 18×
• People v. Fiedler
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1992-07-06· cited 17×
• People v. Hampton
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1992-07-06· cited 8×
• People of Michigan v. Theodore Paul Wafer
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2022-02-16
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Pownall, R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-07-20
• People of Michigan v. Ronnie Lamont Spears
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2023-04-20
• People of Michigan v. Christopher Paul Schurr
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2024-01-25

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-01· cited 15,427×
• Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-25· cited 4,631×
• Tennessee v. Garner
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-27· cited 4,272×
• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.
  Supreme Court· 1974-12-23· cited 2,489×
• Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-15· cited 2,370×
• Marks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-01· cited 2,149×
• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• United States v. Price
  Supreme Court· 1966-04-04· cited 1,112×
• Ross v. Consumers Power Co.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1985-01-22· cited 716×
• Terry v. Adams
  Supreme Court· 1953-06-15· cited 629×
• People v. Utter
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1921-12-21· cited 96×
• People v. Dempster
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1976-06-03· cited 93×
• People v. Hanrahan
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1889-07-11· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Chermansky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-05-21· cited 80×
• People v. Stevenson
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-12-23· cited 70×
• In re Lamphere
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1886-04-22· cited 56×
• People v. Pace
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1980-12-16· cited 45×
• In re Lambrecht
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1904-07-27· cited 42×
• People v. Whitty
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1980-04-01· cited 25×