Bryant 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 exception that permits the State to show a defendant's propensity for illicit sexual relations under certain circumstances
• recognizing exception that permits the State to show a defendant’s propensity for illicit sexual relations under certain circumstances
• allowing evidence of convictions to be admitted because it showed appellant’s behavior toward girl whom he killed only a month later, thus tending to show motive and intent
• “[TJhe evidence of the convictions was admissible because it showed appellant’s behavior toward the girl whom he killed only a month later, thus tending to show motive and intent.”
• evidence of other crimes relevant and admissible if tending to directly prove a defendant guilty of the crime for which he is being tried

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Cofield
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-04-15· cited 449×
• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• State v. Lucas
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1959-06-01· cited 182×
• Commonwealth v. Woodhouse
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-09-26· cited 131×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-11-12· cited 106×
• Casey v. Roman Catholic Archbishop
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-07-19· cited 104×
• Comer Blocker v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1961-03-03· cited 96×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-10-07· cited 80×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-09-13· cited 74×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-05-08· cited 73×
• State v. Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-05-10· cited 73×
• Ayers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-07-21· cited 72×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-10-05· cited 70×
• Connor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-06-13· cited 62×
• State v. Collins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-03-15· cited 62×
• Frederick Z. Goosman, to His Own Use and to the Use of Royal Indemnity Company, a Body Corporate v. A. Duie Pyle, Inc., a Body Corporate
  Fourth Circuit· 1963-06-29· cited 59×
• Saldiveri v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-06-26· cited 59×
• Langley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-11-02· cited 58×
• Snyder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-11-16· cited 56×
• Bowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-09· cited 56×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Durham v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1954-09-10· cited 486×
• Maryland v. Baltimore Radio Show, Inc. Et Al.
  Supreme Court· 1950-01-09· cited 323×
• Delaney v. United States
  First Circuit· 1952-10-10· cited 163×
• Adams, Nelson, and Timanus v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1952-05-09· cited 78×
• Grammer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-18· cited 68×
• Stewart v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1954-07-15· cited 51×
• Walker v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1894-02-16· cited 39×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1955-03-25· cited 37×
• State v. Ortego
  Washington Supreme Court· 1945-03-08· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Poisson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1893-01-03· cited 32×
• Butler v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1951-09-15· cited 23×
• Martin G. Imbach, Inc. v. Deegan
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1955-11-04· cited 23×
• Hendrix v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1952-06-17· cited 22×
• Grossfeld v. Braverman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1954-01-08· cited 20×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-11· cited 18×
• Cohen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1940-12-18· cited 5×