State v. Small

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is the rule in Rhode Island that even if an arrest is unlawful * * * the arrest may not be resisted forcibly.”
• defendant may not aid unjustified user of force to assault justified user of force
• no evidence to warrant instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mattatall v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2008-05-29· cited 40×
• State v. Gelinas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-08-05· cited 34×
• State v. Caron
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-12-15· cited 11×
• Dias v. Vieira
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-04-13· cited 6×
• State v. Beeley
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1995-01-04· cited 4×
• State v. James R. Perkins
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2023-05-25

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dorszynski v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 664×
• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 471×
• United States v. Felder M. Davis and Houston Felder Davis
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-04-07· cited 78×
• State v. Crescenzo
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1975-02-03· cited 58×
• State v. Levitt
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1977-04-01· cited 44×
• Heichelbech v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1972-04-14· cited 42×
• State v. Fortes
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1975-01-10· cited 41×
• Taylor v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-11-30· cited 36×
• State v. Ramsdell
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1971-12-17· cited 31×
• State v. Giorgi
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1979-02-14· cited 25×
• State v. Fitanides
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1977-05-25· cited 7×