State v. Stewart

How courts have described this case

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

• self-defense instruction refused where wife shot sleeping husband because there was no lethal threat to wife contemporaneous with the killing
• self-defense instruction inappropriate because no confrontational circumstance at the time that woman killed her sleeping husband
• woman who killed her abusive husband while he was sleeping did not show that she was in imminent danger at the time of the killing
• woman who killed her abusive husband'while he was sleeping did not show that she was in imminent danger at the time of the killing
• two expert witnesses, a psychologist and a psychiatrist, testified at trial regarding the battered woman syndrome
• even battered woman’s self-defense claim must be measured by objective reasonableness standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Thomas
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1997-01-22· cited 266×
• People v. Aris
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-11-17· cited 67×
• Wilson v. Meeks
  Tenth Circuit· 1996-10-23· cited 65×
• Bechtel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1992-09-02· cited 65×
• State v. Tyler
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1992-10-30· cited 61×
• Lisa J. Dunn, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Raymond Roberts, Respondent-Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-05-01· cited 44×
• State v. Cramer
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1992-11-20· cited 27×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-08-07· cited 26×
• State v. Hernandez
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1993-10-29· cited 24×
• Dale A. Whipple v. Jack R. Duckworth, Warden, Superintendent of Indiana Reformatory
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-04-02· cited 22×
• People v. Day
  California Court of Appeal· 1992-01-06· cited 18×
• Xi Van Ha v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-03-31· cited 17×
• Harrington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-10-25· cited 15×
• State v. Ricks
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-04-21· cited 13×
• Larson v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-12-21· cited 13×
• United States v. Gaviria
  E.D. New York· 1992-10-22· cited 13×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1993-12-10· cited 11×
• In re Glenn G.
  NYC Family Court· 1992-05-04· cited 11×
• State v. Michael G. Long
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2012-05-03· cited 8×
• State v. Hayes
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2020-03-06· cited 8×

Cites

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

• State v. Middleton
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1983-01-18· cited 320×
• State v. Allery
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-17· cited 198×
• State v. Kelly
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-06-28· cited 116×
• Jahnke v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 105×
• State v. Leidholm
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1983-05-12· cited 84×
• State v. Childers
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1977-04-09· cited 81×
• Hawthorne v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-01-18· cited 65×
• State v. Hodges
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1986-03-28· cited 63×
• State v. Anaya
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-12-29· cited 60×
• State v. Dozier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-06-07· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-01-22· cited 52×
• People v. Torres
  New York Supreme Court· 1985-04-16· cited 52×
• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-10-30· cited 49×
• State v. Gallegos
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1986-06-04· cited 45×
• State v. Hundley
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-01-11· cited 44×
• State v. Osbey
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-12-06· cited 41×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1980-12-03· cited 39×
• People v. Emick
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1984-11-07· cited 27×
• State v. Hodges
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-03-27· cited 16×
• People v. Powell
  New York County Courts· 1980-01-15· cited 14×