Cates v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that rulings from other jurisdictions are persuasive authority, and “[i]f the reasoning which supports them fails to persuade, they are no authority at all”
• noting that predecessor to Loss Recovery Statute encompassed a public policy “not to help one who loses at gambling; but to discourage illegal gambling by putting the winner on notice that the courts will ... force him to disgorge his winnings”
• “It is an ancient rule of law that parties to an illegal transaction can obtain no relief in the courts.”
• felony-murder conviction based on forcible retaking of gambling losses as robbery sustained
• felony-murder conviction based on forcible retaking of gambling losses as robbery sustained

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Barnett
  California Court of Appeal· 1998-05-04· cited 546×
• People v. Barnett
  California Supreme Court· 1998-05-04· cited 212×
• People v. Tufunga
  California Supreme Court· 1999-11-15· cited 201×
• McCord v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-09-09· cited 82×
• State v. Morant
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-08-26· cited 60×
• Croft v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-10-09· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Dombrauskas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-18· cited 38×
• Couplin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-10-18· cited 25×
• Jacobs v. Adams
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-13· cited 23×
• Jupiter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-11· cited 22×
• Mia Mason v. Machine Zone, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-03-17· cited 22×
• Townsend v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1988-11-04· cited 20×
• People v. Hodges
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-12-30· cited 19×
• Munday v. Waste Management of North America, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 1998-03-16· cited 15×
• State v. Hobbs
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2003-02-06· cited 15×
• Selective Way v. Nationwide
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-10-30· cited 14×
• Coates v. State of Maryland
  D. Maryland· 1977-08-01· cited 12×
• In Re Smith
  D. Maryland· 1986-10-16· cited 10×
• People v. Robinson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-02-16· cited 7×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-05-03· cited 6×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Midgett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-09-01· cited 150×
• Butts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-06-17· cited 117×
• People v. Butler
  California Supreme Court· 1967-01-09· cited 101×
• State v. Gover
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1973-01-09· cited 67×
• People v. Rosen
  California Supreme Court· 1938-04-19· cited 48×
• Fletcher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-03-27· cited 47×
• Darby v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-03-20· cited 41×
• Putinski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-06-13· cited 29×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1891-04-15· cited 29×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-11-13· cited 26×
• People v. Gallegos
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1954-09-27· cited 25×
• Tyler v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-09-19· cited 23×
• Phenious v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-03-11· cited 19×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-09-25· cited 18×
• State v. Price
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1923-11-03· cited 17×
• People v. Henry
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1918-07-18· cited 17×
• Gant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1902-03-26· cited 11×
• Gover v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-04-19· cited 6×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-05-06· cited 1×