State v. Green

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a defendant who acts in self-defense cannot be guilty of a crime
• affirming grant of immunity where decedent, who was “totally irrational,” chose to attack even while aware that the defendant was armed with a knife
• rejecting the State’s argument that the defendant “was engaged in the crime of aggravated assault” and concluding that the defendant “obviously was not engaged in a crime . . . because his actions supported the trial court’s finding of justification”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Woodard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-27· cited 119×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-23· cited 47×
• Bostic v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 16×
• State v. Remy
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-03-13· cited 13×
• In THE INTEREST OF T.B., a Child
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-06-01· cited 13×
• State v. Cooper
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-26· cited 7×
• State v. Hipp
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-01· cited 3×
• State v. Jennings
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-18· cited 3×
• The State v. Smith.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-09-14· cited 2×
• State v. Christopher Cooper
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-09-26
• State v. Tarrance Jennings
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-05-18
• State v. Craig Lynn Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-10

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-10-06· cited 62×
• Demery v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 23×
• State v. Bunn
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-09-20· cited 18×
• Mullins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-07· cited 7×
• State v. Green
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-10-04· cited 4×