State v. Gorham

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that one may be provoked by words alone
• unreasonable good faith belief not sufficient to establish defense of self defense
• “[I]f the jury concluded after the court’s instruction that a defendant’s use of words alone to bring about a fight in which he intended at the outset to kill his opponent was sufficient to destroy his legal defense, they were correct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Etienne
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-12-21· cited 47×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1981-06-12· cited 25×
• State v. Santamaria
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2000-07-05· cited 10×
• Dukette v. Perrin
  D. New Hampshire· 1983-06-09· cited 7×
• State v. Bashaw
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2001-11-26· cited 7×
• State v. Holt
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1985-04-18· cited 3×
• State v. Janvrin
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1982-02-12· cited 1×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Aldrich v. Wright
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1873-12-15· cited 14×
• Kennedy v. Ricker
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1979-12-12· cited 7×
• Wheatley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1932-01-20· cited 1×