State v. Butler

How courts have described this case

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

• perceiving evidence in the record to support the defendant's self-defense hypothesis and holding that the trial justice should have instructed on self-defense
• If the trial justice “concludes that the requested instruction is not applicable, the effect of the defendant’s exception to such ruling is to require this [C]ourt to independently review the evidence and determine whether the trial justice’s concept [on self-defense] was correct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Hockenhull
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-05-27· cited 48×
• State v. Linde
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-07-07· cited 45×
• State v. Mastracchio
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-07-13· cited 38×
• State v. Pineda
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2011-03-02· cited 37×
• State v. Vargas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-09-16· cited 35×
• State v. Gelinas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-08-05· cited 34×
• State v. Arpin
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-02-07· cited 34×
• Larngar v. Wall
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2007-04-05· cited 29×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1988-11-07· cited 25×
• State v. McGuy
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-11-25· cited 24×
• State v. Cipriano
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-06-16· cited 19×
• State v. Mercier
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-06-05· cited 19×
• State v. Jeffrey Martin
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2013-06-18· cited 16×
• State v. Durand
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-09-02· cited 16×
• State v. D'AMARIO
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-01-22· cited 16×
• State v. Medeiros
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1991-11-20· cited 16×
• State v. Martinez
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1995-01-18· cited 15×
• State v. Dellatore
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2000-11-03· cited 13×
• State v. Malouin
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-07-30· cited 12×
• State v. Juan Soler
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2016-07-12· cited 8×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• People v. Carmen
  California Supreme Court· 1951-03-01· cited 319×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-04-27· cited 145×
• State v. Winston
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1969-04-25· cited 26×
• State v. Crough
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1959-07-01· cited 16×
• MacAruso v. Massart
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1963-04-19· cited 10×
• State v. Shea
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1950-08-02· cited 6×