State v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• “The general rule is that a person accused of an assault does not lose his right to assert self-defense, unless he said or did something calculated to induce an attack upon himself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Asbury
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-03-20· cited 49×
• State v. Harden
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2009-07-27· cited 31×
• State v. Knotts
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-07-23· cited 17×
• State v. Brooks
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-12-08· cited 15×
• State v. Wykle
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2000-10-27· cited 7×
• Collins v. Bennett
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-04-16· cited 4×
• State of West Virginia v. Billy Edward Evans
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2020-03-23
• State of West Virginia v. Mitchell H.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2020-09-04
• State of West Virginia v. Griffith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2021-04-26

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mauck v. City of Martinsburg
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-07· cited 40×
• Jordan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-03-02· cited 33×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-09-17· cited 32×
• Cunningham v. Martin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-07-14· cited 8×