State v. Watson

How courts have described this case

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

• “Ordinarily, self-defense is not available to the aggressor who precipitates an affray without legal justification.”
• “Ordinarily, self-defense is not available to the aggressor who precipitates an affray without legal justification.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State Ex Rel. Daniel v. Legursky
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-11-17· cited 199×
• State v. Craft
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-10-28· cited 80×
• State v. Demastus
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-09-23· cited 73×
• State v. Harless
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-12-18· cited 56×
• State v. Boyd
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-13· cited 50×
• State v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-03-25· cited 49×
• State v. Glover
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-03-27· cited 47×
• Marano v. Holland
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-02-01· cited 44×
• State v. Cecil
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 37×
• State v. Rummer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-05-28· cited 36×
• State Ex Rel. Kitchen v. Painter
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-06-07· cited 31×
• State v. Gravely
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-12-13· cited 29×
• Tucker v. Holland
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-03-01· cited 19×
• State Ex Rel. Levitt v. Bordenkircher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-03-12· cited 16×
• State v. Martin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-04-28· cited 12×
• State v. Shingleton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2008-11-19· cited 11×
• State v. Wykle
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2000-10-27· cited 7×
• State v. McCormick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-05-05· cited 5×
• State v. Glover
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-07-25· cited 5×
• State v. Morgan
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-12-15· cited 4×

Cites

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

• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Manson v. Brathwaite
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 5,119×
• Gilbert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,797×
• Foster v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-01· cited 1,048×
• People v. Pope
  California Supreme Court· 1979-02-22· cited 966×
• Wardius v. Oregon
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-11· cited 827×
• Moore v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-12· cited 676×
• State v. Thomas
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-03-19· cited 399×
• United States v. Ronald Raymond Ravich and Edward McConnell
  Second Circuit· 1970-02-06· cited 215×
• State v. Boyd
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1977-03-29· cited 204×
• State v. Atkins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-07-17· cited 145×
• Dawkins v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-03-03· cited 132×
• State v. Burton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-04-10· cited 125×
• State v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-11-14· cited 117×
• State v. Pratt
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-05-02· cited 102×
• William R. Mason v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-06-30· cited 91×
• Wilson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-19· cited 88×
• Evans v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1974-06-05· cited 85×
• United States v. Richard Earl Williams
  Ninth Circuit· 1970-12-29· cited 83×