Ruffin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• self-defense justification available to intentional crimes; holding it was inapplicable to a reckless crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gladden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-12-23· cited 117×
• State v. Betts
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2022-07-29· cited 69×
• State v. Arellano
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1987-08-27· cited 15×
• Tunstall v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-08-12· cited 8×
• Gladden v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1974-03-15· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Kenneth Jose Santana-Rodriguez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-10-14

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Craig v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-11-17· cited 52×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-04-22· cited 38×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-07-29· cited 22×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-06-07· cited 19×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-04-16· cited 18×