State v. Gregory

How courts have described this case

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

• evaluating district court’s instruction on manslaughter, holding jury could conclude self-defense with excessive force, justifying lawful act, unlawful manner involuntary manslaughter instruction
• offsetting “other than evidence of conviction of a crime” in parenthesis
• défendant’s sex life or his quarrels with his paramour “wholly irrelevant” to his professed fear of knives and prejudicial
• use of excessive force may be found to be “unlawful” manner of committing the “lawful act” of self-defense, and thereby supply the element of involuntary manslaughter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. McCullough
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2012-03-02· cited 273×
• State v. Bridges
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2013-08-09· cited 133×
• State v. Childers
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1977-04-09· cited 81×
• McKissick v. Frye
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-06-03· cited 79×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1997-03-07· cited 78×
• State v. Haygood
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2018-11-21· cited 73×
• State v. Sullivan & Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-05-06· cited 72×
• State v. Waff
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-07-31· cited 51×
• State v. Long
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1984-01-13· cited 50×
• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-10-30· cited 49×
• State v. Kirkpatrick
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-05-30· cited 46×
• State v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1999-03-05· cited 45×
• State v. James
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2019-06-28· cited 44×
• State v. Perkins
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1991-05-24· cited 42×
• State v. Seelke
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1977-03-05· cited 42×
• State v. Friday
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2013-08-09· cited 39×
• State v. Cheeks
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-12-08· cited 38×
• State v. Pulliam
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2018-11-21· cited 38×
• State v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-10-25· cited 36×
• State v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-04-21· cited 36×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Humphrey
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1975-06-14· cited 50×
• State v. Blocker
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1973-01-20· cited 40×
• Beams v. Werth
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1968-03-09· cited 38×
• State v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1975-11-08· cited 37×
• Estate of Maguire v. McNutt
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1970-03-07· cited 33×
• State v. Jensen
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1966-07-27· cited 33×
• State v. McDermott
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1969-01-25· cited 33×
• State v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1974-11-02· cited 30×
• State v. Stokes
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1974-06-15· cited 27×
• State v. Weyer
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1972-12-09· cited 25×
• State v. Childers
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1975-06-14· cited 21×
• State v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1971-11-06· cited 20×
• Urban Renewal Agency v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1973-04-07· cited 19×
• State v. Ireland
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1905-11-11· cited 15×
• State v. Diggs
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1965-05-15· cited 13×
• Streff v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Kansas, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1973-04-07· cited 8×