State v. Avery

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that defense of premises authorizes the defender to take protective acts when the intruder is seeking to cross the protective barrier of the house
• while words alone are not adequate' cause, “little more is required”; evidence of formei provocation may be relevant to show why events immediately before killing amount to sudden passion arising from adequate cause
• self-defense connotes intentional but justified force, whereas accident connotes unintentional injury
• \ 'Substantial evidence' is evidence putting a matter in issue.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

51 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2009-05-26· cited 156×
• State v. Boyett
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2008-04-28· cited 73×
• State v. Beck
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2005-07-26· cited 43×
• State v. Bruner
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2018-01-16· cited 43×
• McNeal v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2013-11-12· cited 42×
• Booker v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2018-06-12· cited 33×
• State v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2005-05-10· cited 30×
• State of Missouri v. Richard John Whipple
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2016-10-18· cited 20×
• Corey A. Wiggins, Movant/Appellant v. State of Missouri
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2015-04-28· cited 19×
• State v. Mangum
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2013-01-08· cited 19×
• State v. Eoff
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-04-13· cited 18×
• State v. Hashman
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-04-04· cited 17×
• Francis v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-01-31· cited 16×
• State v. Kendrick
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-04-24· cited 16×
• State v. Drisdel
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2013-10-08· cited 15×
• State v. Goodine
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2006-05-30· cited 12×
• State v. White
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2007-04-10· cited 12×
• State v. Pulley
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2011-10-04· cited 12×
• State v. Morris
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2009-05-26· cited 11×
• State v. Ware
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2010-11-16· cited 11×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Dulany
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1989-12-12· cited 326×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1997-05-27· cited 117×
• State v. Westfall
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-05-28· cited 92×
• State v. Derenzy
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-11-26· cited 72×
• State v. Redmond
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1996-12-17· cited 63×
• State v. Weems
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1992-10-27· cited 62×
• State v. Santillan
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1997-06-17· cited 57×
• State v. Hibler
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1999-09-21· cited 56×
• State v. Beeler
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2000-02-22· cited 54×
• State v. Fears
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1991-02-07· cited 40×
• State v. Randolph
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1973-06-19· cited 35×
• State v. Peal
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1971-03-08· cited 33×
• State v. Lumpkin
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1993-03-30· cited 32×
• State v. Fowler
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1997-02-25· cited 26×
• State v. Bidstrup
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1911-11-14· cited 24×
• State v. Eldridge
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1977-05-17· cited 10×
• State v. Richards
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1990-07-03· cited 9×
• State v. Battle
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2000-11-21· cited 8×
• State v. East
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1998-06-30· cited 7×
• Perkins v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2002-05-21· cited 5×