Ballard v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that when the charged crime is homicide, “the corpus delecti consists of proof that the victim died and that the death was caused by a criminal act, but it need not tend to connect the defendant on trial with that act”
• approving the rule requiring independent corroboration of “only the major or essential harm involved in the charged offense”
• approving the rule requiring independent corroboration of “only the major or essential harm involved in the charged offense”
• “[I]n a homicide case, the corpus delicti consists of proof that the victim died and that the death was caused by a criminal act, but it need not tend to connect the defendant on trial with that act.”
• discussing the “national overview of the corroboration requirement”
• discussing the “national overview of the corroboration requirement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Jones
  California Supreme Court· 1998-01-29· cited 360×
• People v. Alvarez
  California Supreme Court· 2002-05-23· cited 219×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1994-10-21· cited 192×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-02-19· cited 58×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-09-20· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Morgan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-04-03· cited 40×
• Grimm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-05-04· cited 23×
• Nicholson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-11-05· cited 5×
• McArthur v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-09-21· cited 4×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Opper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1954-12-06· cited 1,280×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-17· cited 86×
• Hadder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-04-14· cited 74×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-04-10· cited 66×
• Birchead v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-12-04· cited 65×
• Thanos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-04-05· cited 64×
• Bagley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-06-19· cited 34×
• Ball v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-02-02· cited 33×
• Bradbury v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-01-30· cited 33×
• Pierce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-12-14· cited 29×
• Hurley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-11-16· cited 25×
• Lemons v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1981-09-01· cited 24×
• Whittlesey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-13· cited 24×
• Duckworth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-08-23· cited 16×
• Crouch v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1989-01-12· cited 2×