Person v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the defendant accused the officer of acting in a racist manner in addition to cursing at the officer and screaming in his face \I'm not going to any g___d___n jail and I'm not wearing any mother-f___g handcuffs\
• explaining that the defendant accused the officer of acting in a racist manner in addition to cursing at the officer and screaming in his face “I’m not going to any g-d-n jail and I’m not wearing any mother-f- — g handcuffs”
• fighting words found when defendant used profane, abusive language throughout the encounter with the officer and screamed in officer’s face, “I’m not going to any g_d_n jail and I’m not wearing any mother-f_g handcuffs” and threatened to “blow the officer’s head off”
• evidence sufficient to support finding that defendant used \fighting words\ to arresting officer
• evidence sufficient to support finding that defendant used “fighting words” to arresting officer
• defendant “continually kept getting up in [the officer’s] face and cussing him,” including saying he was “not going to any goddamn jail” and “not wearing any mother-fucking handcuffs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Parnoff
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-07-03· cited 177×
• State v. Read
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1996-03-22· cited 65×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-08· cited 13×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-06· cited 12×
• Sandidge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-21· cited 7×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-19· cited 6×
• Steillman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-29· cited 6×
• Knowles v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-02-21· cited 5×
• Interest of L. E. N.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-15· cited 3×
• In Re LEN
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-15
• Brantley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-18

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Gooding v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-23· cited 1,392×
• Sabel v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-03-01· cited 96×
• Garvey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-09-10· cited 33×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-20· cited 28×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-02-07· cited 21×
• Carver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-12-18· cited 17×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-11-10· cited 14×
• State v. Klinakis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-29· cited 13×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-09· cited 11×
• Carver v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-06-23· cited 9×