Best v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that identity of a substance as cocaine may be proved by circumstantial evidence
• indicating that the legislature’s purpose in enacting §§ 10-1001— 10-1003 was to facilitate the admission of real evidence and the establishment of chain of custody, rather than to create new grounds for exclusion
• “When[,] in our judgment[,] th[e] undergirding purpose [of guaranteeing the integrity of drug evidence] has clearly been served, we are not about to worry over whether there has been blind and literal obedience to the rule in the tradition of a Prussian drillmaster.” (Emphasis omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bernard v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1990-05-31· cited 80×
• Wagner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-01-03· cited 29×
• Muhammad v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-11-05· cited 29×
• Clark v. Prince George's County
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-05-02· cited 28×
• Pinkney v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-20· cited 26×
• Rosenberg v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-12-03· cited 25×
• Grayson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-06-08· cited 24×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-03-01· cited 22×
• Brashear v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-06-01· cited 22×
• Behrel v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-05-07· cited 20×
• Anthony v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-09-04· cited 17×
• Derricott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-09· cited 14×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-04-18· cited 14×
• Cicoria v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-02-27· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-04-05· cited 12×
• Brice v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-11-25· cited 12×
• United States v. Anthony Myers
  Eighth Circuit· 2022-12-29· cited 12×
• Lester v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-03· cited 9×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-04-28· cited 9×
• Miles v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1991-09-03· cited 8×

Cites

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

• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-25· cited 201×
• United States v. Dwayne Dolan
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-11-11· cited 129×
• United States v. Steven Elmer Luschen, United States of America v. Wayne Bernard King
  Eighth Circuit· 1980-02-05· cited 104×
• United States v. Paul F. Gregorio
  Fourth Circuit· 1974-05-31· cited 100×
• Breeding v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-06-08· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Chappee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-05-12· cited 79×
• United States v. Robert Sifuentes
  Fourth Circuit· 1974-10-30· cited 66×
• Douglas D. Chappee v. George Vose
  First Circuit· 1988-03-28· cited 66×
• United States v. Michael Joseph Orzechowski
  Seventh Circuit· 1977-01-24· cited 59×
• United States v. Peter L. Francesco
  First Circuit· 1984-01-20· cited 57×
• United States v. Anthony Puglisi, Anthony Bodami, Albert Morgan, and Antonio Pavone
  Second Circuit· 1986-05-08· cited 54×
• United States v. Martin Ross
  Second Circuit· 1983-10-13· cited 48×
• United States v. Donald Hugh Hall
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-04-12· cited 45×
• United States v. Robert Bockius
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-12-22· cited 38×
• United States v. Gary Dale Posey
  Tenth Circuit· 1981-04-30· cited 38×
• Nixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1954-05-21· cited 28×
• United States v. Jorge Ortiz
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-01-21· cited 22×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-11-10· cited 22×