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.

• noting that the defendant must have “actually believed the amount of force used was necessary[]” (emphasis omitted)
• indicating that “it is up to the jury to decide” whether an individual faced imminent harm once there is “some evidence” to that effect
• “[T]he defendant has the burden of initially producing ‘some evidence’ on the issue of mitigation or self-defense” before the jury can receive an instruction on the elements of self-defense
• “[A]n imminent threat is not dependent on its temporal proximity[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Westchester West No. 2 Ltd. Partnership v. Montgomery County
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-12-18· cited 28×
• Uthus v. Valley Mill Camp
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-03-04· cited 15×
• Estate of Blair v. Austin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-06-02· cited 11×
• Wallace-Bey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-11-02· cited 7×
• Nicholson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-11-05· cited 5×
• Hayes & Winston v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-08-25· cited 5×
• Jarvis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2024-08-12· cited 5×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2019-01-18· cited 4×
• State v. Elzey
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-01-29· cited 3×
• Howell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-06-27· cited 2×
• Belton & Worsley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-12-28· cited 2×
• Elzey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-11-22· cited 1×
• Frazelle-Foster v. Foster
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-05-04
• Prince v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2022-10-26
• Cook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2024-08-20
• State of West Virginia v. Joshua Marcellus Phillips
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2025-05-28
• Caples v. Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Inc.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2026-05-01

Cites

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

• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-25· cited 201×
• State v. Allery
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-17· cited 198×
• State v. Janes
  Washington Supreme Court· 1993-04-08· cited 195×
• Dykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-11· cited 140×
• Burch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-03· cited 112×
• State v. Faulkner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-11-21· cited 109×
• State v. Leidholm
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1983-05-12· cited 84×
• State v. Hennum
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-06-16· cited 83×
• Denicolis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-12-10· cited 67×
• Bellamy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-02-14· cited 60×
• State v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-02-17· cited 60×
• Dionas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-12-10· cited 57×
• State v. Beeler
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2000-02-22· cited 54×
• State v. Smullen
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-03-12· cited 52×
• Maury's Adm'r v. Mason's Adm'r
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1838-06-15· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Grove
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-18· cited 47×
• Jones v. Maryland
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-02-07· cited 46×
• State v. Gallegos
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1986-06-04· cited 45×
• State v. Hundley
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-01-11· cited 44×