Banks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing defendant’s drug conviction because of the prejudicial introduction into evidence of irrelevant picture of defendant with a gun
• acknowledging that guns and drugs are commonly associated with violence
• prejudicial effect of admitting photographs of defendant holding handgun outweighed any probative value to establish how police identified defendant
• “Possession and, indeed, use, of weapons, most notably firearms, is commonly associated with the drug culture ...”
• “Possession and indeed, use, of weapons, most notably, firearms, is commonly associated with the drug culture[.]”
• “[0]ne who is involved in distribution of narcotics, it is thought, a faction, would be more prone to possess, and/or use, firearms, or other weapons, than a person not so involved.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Jones
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-04-26· cited 38×
• Jeffries v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-01-29· cited 36×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-03-09· cited 26×
• Norman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-03-27· cited 26×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-11-25· cited 21×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-01-29· cited 21×
• Stokeling v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-12-30· cited 21×
• Burns v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-02-27· cited 17×
• Whiting v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-03-02· cited 14×
• Dashiell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-03-05· cited 14×
• Diaz v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-11-02· cited 14×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-07-07· cited 12×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-10· cited 10×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-04-02· cited 10×
• Lucas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-08-28· cited 9×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-06-02· cited 7×
• Cross v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-10-27· cited 6×
• Goldberg v. Boone
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-03-01· cited 4×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-02-26· cited 2×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-07-14· cited 1×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• Trusty v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-03-04· cited 124×
• Von Lusch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-01-31· cited 92×
• Simpler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-01-11· cited 69×
• MacEwen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-10-01· cited 56×
• Leuschner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1979-02-08· cited 22×
• Arca v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-04-15· cited 14×
• Derricott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-09· cited 14×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-10-08· cited 9×
• Weedon v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-08· cited 8×
• Dykes v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-07· cited 8×
• State v. Parker
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-06-07· cited 5×
• Wilkinson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1989-03-29· cited 1×