State v. Phillips

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the trial court did not err because “there was sufficient evidence in the record to support the giving of the initial aggressor instruction”
• concluding that the trial court did not err because “there was sufficient evidence in the record to support the giving of the initial aggressor instruction”
• considering whether the evidence was sufficient to support “a jury finding” that the defendant was the “initial aggressor”
• considering whether the evidence was sufficient to support “a jury finding” that the defendant was the “initial aggressor”
• “The term ‘aggressor’ has long been a legal term of art used with the criminal defense of self-defense.”
• “[P]rovocation by mere words, if unaccompanied by any overt act of hostility will not cause a person to be an initial aggressor.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Worsham
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2024-04-24· cited 11×
• Jondle
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2022-02-02· cited 4×
• State v. King
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2025-10-01· cited 2×
• State v. De Mauro
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2023-03-08
• State v. Worsham
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2026-05-13

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Gaines
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2009-04-30· cited 1,741×
• Comcast Corp. v. Department of Revenue
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2014-10-02· cited 168×
• State v. McNally
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2017-04-20· cited 65×
• Montara Owners Assn. v. La Noue Development, LLC
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2015-06-18· cited 55×
• State v. Doris
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1908-03-03· cited 47×
• The People v.Christopher E. Walker
  New York Court of Appeals· 2015-10-27· cited 32×
• State v. Keller
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1979-05-14· cited 29×
• State v. Gray
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1904-01-11· cited 27×
• Turner's Will
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1908-01-28· cited 21×
• State v. Freeman
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1991-10-30· cited 11×
• People v. Baez
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-03-25· cited 11×
• People v. Giammarino
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1984-11-19· cited 7×
• State v. Heine
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2021-03-17· cited 7×
• People v. Pagnotta
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1911-04-21· cited 6×