Blackwell 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 the prosecutor was entitled to respond to defense counsel’s remarks about celebrated criminals that received life sentences, rather than the death penalty
• “In first degree murder indictments filed pursuant to this provision, it is well settled that murder in the second degree and manslaughter are lesser included offenses”
• not required when “there is no evidence supporting conviction of a lesser degree”
• not required when \there is no evidence supporting conviction of a lesser degree\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• Degren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-14· cited 158×
• Dykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-11· cited 140×
• Hook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-13· cited 124×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-12-17· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Moody
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-11-30· cited 108×
• State v. Ward
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-12-21· cited 93×
• Hagans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-30· cited 83×
• Hof v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-03-10· cited 80×
• Gunning v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-14· cited 76×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-30· cited 71×
• Spain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-04-07· cited 70×
• Mills v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-06-25· cited 69×
• Dishman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-21· cited 68×
• State v. Chaney
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-10· cited 64×
• State v. Byrnes
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-07-31· cited 63×
• Lansdowne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-02-29· cited 56×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-02-21· cited 54×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-06-13· cited 53×

Cites

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

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 3,922×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Moore v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-10-10· cited 1,226×
• Roberts v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 802×
• Wilhelm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-26· cited 259×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• Midgett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-09-01· cited 150×
• Chisley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1953-03-20· cited 147×
• Bartholomey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-12-04· cited 115×
• Shell Oil Co. v. Supervisor of Assessments
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-09-09· cited 113×
• Davidson v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-09-18· cited 109×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-09-11· cited 95×
• Shoemaker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-05-01· cited 68×
• State v. Rondeau
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1976-08-20· cited 63×
• Schanker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1955-07-27· cited 44×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1955-03-25· cited 37×