Brown v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• a criminal charge must so characterize the crime and discuss the particular offense so as to give the accused notice of what he is called to defend
• “While the adoption of the statutory form of indictment eroded most of the technical niceties which were required at common law, it did not dispense [of] the requirement that the charging document contain the essential elements of the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Nika v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2008-12-31· cited 149×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-04-24· cited 100×
• Whittlesey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-09-28· cited 96×
• Dishman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-21· cited 68×
• Powell v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-09-03· cited 47×
• Trimble v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-07· cited 46×
• Duley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-11-07· cited 27×
• State v. Chaney
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-09-11· cited 19×
• Battle v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-11-06· cited 14×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1980-04-16· cited 13×
• Pfeiffer v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1979-11-07· cited 9×
• Cordovi v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-06-05· cited 7×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-03-24· cited 6×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-05-09· cited 5×
• Dishman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-01· cited 5×
• Ferrell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-11-14· cited 3×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• 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×
• Chisley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1953-03-20· cited 147×
• Gladden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-12-23· cited 117×
• State v. Ward
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-12-21· cited 93×
• Lindsay v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-11-17· cited 57×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1979-01-26· cited 52×
• State v. Williamson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-02-21· cited 40×
• Phenious v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-03-11· cited 19×
• Bateman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-01-07· cited 12×