State v. Grantham

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that husband who shot and killed his wife while she was advancing upon him with a knife in their home was not bound to retreat in order to invoke the benefit of self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hedges v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1965-03-17· cited 109×
• State v. Curry
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-12-04· cited 69×
• Weiand v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-03-11· cited 53×
• State v. W.J.B.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-03-31· cited 50×
• State v. Harden
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2009-07-27· cited 31×
• People v. Jones
  New York Court of Appeals· 2004-12-16· cited 30×
• People v. McGrandy
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1967-12-07· cited 27×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-05-18· cited 24×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1955-06-07· cited 23×
• State v. Bobbitt
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-06-24· cited 22×
• Gainer v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1978-10-11· cited 19×
• State v. Wigington
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-07-26· cited 13×
• State v. Bobbitt
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-11-07· cited 11×
• State v. Sales
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-04-01· cited 9×
• Cooper v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1986-07-28· cited 8×
• State v. Scott
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-08-29· cited 7×
• Rippie v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-09-23· cited 4×
• United States v. Yabut
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1971-03-05· cited 3×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1955-01-12· cited 1×
• State v. WJB
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-03-31