State v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the common law and holding that “a lawful guest attacked in the owner’s home has no duty to retreat where the attacker is an intruder” but “where the attacker is the homeowner, a lawful guest has a duty to retreat”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Curry
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-12-04· cited 69×
• Gilbert v. Moore
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-01-22· cited 61×
• State v. Day
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-07-06· cited 50×
• Unnamed case
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-01-22
• Gilbert v. Moore
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-02-24

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Merriman
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1985-11-08· cited 10×
• State v. Sales
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-04-01· cited 9×
• State v. Chambers
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1992-11-30· cited 3×