State v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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

• “The appellant contends that the general rule that a person assaulted must retreat, if he may safely do so before taking the life of his assailant . . . is not applicable to this case, because the defendant was on his own premises and was therefore not bound to retreat . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Hamric
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1966-07-15· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Fraser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-01-07· cited 16×
• State v. Richardson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1917-04-03· cited 12×
• State v. Dyer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1910-02-08· cited 10×
• State v. Cessna
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1915-06-23· cited 9×
• State of Iowa v. Miguel Angel Lorenzo Baltazar
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2019-11-22
• State v. Crandall
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1939-10-24

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Beard v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1895-05-27· cited 149×
• Erwin v. State
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1876-12-15· cited 73×
• Runyan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1877-05-15· cited 43×
• State v. Cushing
  Washington Supreme Court· 1896-05-21· cited 36×
• State v. Woodward
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1891-12-18· cited 14×
• Baker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1892-06-18· cited 13×
• Foster v. Territory of Arizona
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1899-03-15· cited 11×
• State v. Evenson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1904-01-12· cited 7×