Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “If this attempted arrest was illegal, the defendant had a right to resist the same, using as much force as would be necessary to do so.”
• “If this attempted arrest was illegal, the defendant had a right to resist the same, using as much force as would be necessary to do so.”
• “[T]he repulsion by proportionate man . . . has a right to shun an illegal arrest by flight. The exercise of this right should not, and would not, subject him to be arrested as a fugitive.” Thomas v. State, 91 Ga. 204, 206 (2) (18 SE 305) (1892

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-12· cited 36×
• Wagner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-05· cited 24×
• Woodward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-12-05· cited 21×
• State v. COPELAND (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-02· cited 17×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-07· cited 16×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 16×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-09-05· cited 11×
• Curtis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-08· cited 10×
• State v. Koon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-01-07· cited 7×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-07-23· cited 4×
• Haygood v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15· cited 3×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-11-14· cited 3×
• Boatright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-27· cited 3×
• Crosby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1959-07-07· cited 1×
• Richard Boatright, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-27

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1905-11-20· cited 50×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1892-10-08· cited 39×
• Yates v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1907-03-01· cited 29×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1912-03-14· cited 26×
• Vlass v. McCrary
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1939-10-12· cited 19×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1907-11-25· cited 18×
• McDonald v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1921-11-16· cited 8×