Porter v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• justification defense requires “reasonable] beliejf] that such threat or force is necessary to defend himself or a third person against such other’s imminent use of unlawful force”
• where there was no evidence that defendant’s actions in shooting victim were justified, trial court was not obligated under Tarvestad to instruct jury on justification, even though it was defendant’s sole defense
• charge on justification not required when the defendant shot at the retreating victim
• any imminent threat of harm had ended

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Code v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-20· cited 26×
• Brower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-02· cited 24×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 16×
• Reese v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-27· cited 15×
• Gravitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-01-24· cited 11×
• Nel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-20· cited 10×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-01· cited 10×
• Burnette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-05-13· cited 8×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-24· cited 5×
• Pierre v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-03· cited 5×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-05· cited 4×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-01-25· cited 4×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-16· cited 4×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-04-19· cited 3×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-12-10· cited 1×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-05-11
• Terrance Scriven v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-03-01

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Tarvestad v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-10-18· cited 103×
• Andrews v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-02-03· cited 28×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-11-08· cited 21×
• Akins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-09-21· cited 11×