State v. Buggs

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting defendant’s justification defense because defendant’s action was not imminently necessary to prevent harm
• Erroneous self-defense instructions were harmless error because there was no evidence that defendant’s action was immediately necessary to prevent the harm he feared
• law “settled” that “after a fight has broken off, one cannot pursue and kill merely because he once feared for his life”
• Erroneous self-defense instructions were harmless error because there was no evidence that defendant’s action was immediately necessary to prevent the harm he feared

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Xi Van Ha v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-03-31· cited 17×
• State v. Andersen
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1993-07-20· cited 14×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-10-25· cited 4×
• State v. Carson
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2017-02-24· cited 2×
• State of Arizona v. Jordan Christopher Ewer
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2023-01-18

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Hunter
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-09-20· cited 183×
• State v. Hundley
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-01-11· cited 44×
• State v. Wallace
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1957-12-17· cited 36×
• State v. Lujan
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-04-06· cited 31×
• State v. Garcia
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-02-16· cited 28×
• State v. Powers
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-10-31· cited 26×
• State v. Walters
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1987-12-15· cited 21×
• State v. Reid
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1987-12-17· cited 19×
• State v. Rhymes
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-04-28· cited 18×
• State v. Garcia
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-08-07· cited 9×
• State v. Martinez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1979-06-05· cited 6×