State v. Campbell

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the defendant was justified in taking an assailant's gun from him and that no crime had occurred, as long as the defendant had used no more force than was necessary to disarm the assailant
• noting that the defendant was 9 justified in taking an assailant’s gun from him and that no crime had occurred, as long as the defendant had used no more force than was necessary to disarm the assailant
• “Once [the victim] had been disarmed, there was no longer any threat of harm to defendant. There was no reason for him to strike [the victim], especially in the brutal manner he did . . . ”
• “Once [the victim] had been disarmed, there was then no longer any threat of harm to defendant. There was no reason for him to strike [the victim], especially in the brutal manner he did . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1980-09-09· cited 38×
• State v. Antwine
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1980-02-29· cited 27×
• State v. Dunson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1988-12-21· cited 25×
• People v. Degreat
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2018-10-15· cited 18×
• State of Iowa v. Mark David Russell
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2024-05-22
• State of Iowa v. Demetrius Ray Howard
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2024-10-02

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Midgett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-09-01· cited 150×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-02-20· cited 37×
• People v. Heller
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1971-03-09· cited 29×
• State v. Fonza
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1962-12-11· cited 22×
• State v. Youngbear
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1972-12-20· cited 22×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-09-24· cited 21×
• State v. Ampey
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-09-19· cited 10×
• State v. Garrett
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-12-09· cited 5×