Baker v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that hearsay falling within the state of mind exception is admissible in a capital sentencing proceeding
• holding that hearsay falling within the state of mind exception is admissible in a capital sentencing proceeding
• holding that under Maryland law, except in murder-for-hire cases, only those individuals found guilty of first degree murder as a principal in the first degree may be sentenced to death
• holding that under Maryland law, except in murder-for-hire cases, only those individuals found guilty of first degree murd.er as a principal in the first degree may be sentenced to death
• stating that “while the strict Rules of Evidence do not apply at a sentencing proceeding, unreliable hearsay is inadmissible”
• stating that “while the strict Rules of Evidence do not apply at a sentencing proceeding, unreliable hearsay is inadmissible”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Baker v. Corcoran
  Fourth Circuit· 2000-07-19· cited 247×
• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-05-17· cited 137×
• Whittlesey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-09-28· cited 96×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-12-19· cited 93×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-02-16· cited 84×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-12-04· cited 69×
• Wiggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-02-10· cited 53×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-11-04· cited 47×
• State v. McKinney
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2001-10-26· cited 46×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-02-07· cited 32×
• In Re Billy W.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-06-13· cited 25×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-10-03· cited 23×
• Lan Buck v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-09-11· cited 18×
• Webster v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-27· cited 17×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-10-17· cited 12×
• Jones-Harris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-03-13· cited 12×
• Chisum v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-02-25· cited 10×
• Bartlett v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-05-19· cited 9×
• Pickett v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-04-03· cited 6×
• Jarvis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2024-08-12· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Mills v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,392×
• Andres v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-04-26· cited 356×
• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• United States v. John Edward Jones, A/K/A Liddy Jones, A/K/A Malik Shariff, United States of America v. Robert Avon Jones, A/K/A Bobby
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-02-09· cited 154×
• Thomas v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-25· cited 119×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-10-31· cited 113×
• Wiggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-11-08· cited 102×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-09-11· cited 95×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-10· cited 78×
• State v. Earp
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-10· cited 74×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1954-02-11· cited 69×
• Booth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-06-24· cited 66×
• State v. Raines
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-14· cited 66×
• Barnhard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-09· cited 57×
• Henderson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-04-27· cited 54×
• Maryland Paper Products Co. v. Judson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-03-03· cited 53×
• Willey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-13· cited 44×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-10-07· cited 43×