State v. Kidd

How courts have described this case

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

• finding error harmless because defendant could not have been acting in self-defense
• aggressor instruction is not favored, but may be given when there is evidence that the defendant provoked the need to act in self-defense
• first aggressor instruction was appropriate for assault on police officers when provoking act was assault of others followed by flight because assaulting individuals and fleeing is likely to result in an armed police response

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Walden
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-03-13· cited 172×
• State v. Riley
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-05-13· cited 162×
• State v. Ross
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-10-28· cited 84×
• State v. Grott
  Washington Supreme Court· 2020-02-20· cited 72×
• State v. Scott
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-12-27· cited 67×
• State v. Bea
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-07-12· cited 52×
• The State of Washington, Respondent, v. Dawn Marie Sullivan, Appellant
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2016-10-10· cited 31×
• State v. Birnel
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1998-01-13· cited 22×
• State v. Anderson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-01-10· cited 18×
• State v. Hale
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-08-05· cited 18×
• State of Washington v. Joseph Andrew Richmond
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2018-05-01· cited 15×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-07-30· cited 12×
• State v. Janes
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-02-28· cited 9×
• State Of Washington v. Tiana Kee
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2018-12-18· cited 8×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Dunaway
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-01-28· cited 328×
• State v. McCullum
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-03-10· cited 291×
• State v. Nordby
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-08-14· cited 272×
• Allingham v. City of Seattle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-07-15· cited 224×
• State v. Fisher
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-07-09· cited 172×
• State v. Stephens
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-03-26· cited 165×
• State v. Dana
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-04-04· cited 120×
• State v. Tunell
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-05-04· cited 54×
• State v. Etheridge
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-07-09· cited 50×
• State v. Strauss
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-06-12· cited 45×
• State v. Upton
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1976-09-07· cited 39×
• State v. Crutchfield
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-04-24· cited 36×
• State v. Wasson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-05-16· cited 33×
• State v. Heath
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1983-07-05· cited 30×
• State v. Thomas
  Washington Supreme Court· 1963-10-10· cited 29×
• State v. Negrin
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-05-09· cited 26×
• State v. Harmon
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-03-08· cited 25×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-01-23· cited 24×
• State v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-05-15· cited 22×
• State v. Brower
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-06-05· cited 20×