Clark v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Generally, ‘opening the door’ is simply a contention that competent evidence which was previously irrelevant is now relevant through the opponent’s admission of other evidence on the same issue.”
• “The ‘opening the door' doctrine is really a rule of expanded relevancy and authorizes admitting evidence which otherwise would have been irrelevant in order to respond to (1) admissible evidence which generates an issue, or (2

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-05-08· cited 89×
• Ayers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-07-21· cited 72×
• State v. Harrold
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1999-05-07· cited 70×
• State of Tennessee v. Nelson Aguilar Gomez and Florinda Lopez
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2012-04-24· cited 63×
• Terry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-01· cited 53×
• State v. Lessley
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1999-10-15· cited 50×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-04-16· cited 47×
• Grier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-09-23· cited 46×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-09· cited 44×
• Braxton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-11-06· cited 43×
• Elliott v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-03-05· cited 39×
• United States v. Southwick
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 2000-08-30· cited 28×
• State v. Lavoie.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2019-11-22· cited 22×
• McCray v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-08-26· cited 20×
• State v. Sapien
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2011-02-22· cited 16×
• Sivells v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-12-02· cited 15×
• Coffey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-07· cited 14×
• Lockhart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 14×
• Jensen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-08-31· cited 13×
• Little v. Schneider
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-08-22· cited 13×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-12· cited 201×
• United States v. Frank W. Winston
  D.C. Circuit· 1971-06-30· cited 94×
• Rainville v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-11-06· cited 55×
• Straughn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-10-07· cited 53×
• Guesfeird v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-24· cited 53×
• Kosmas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-07-25· cited 51×
• California Insurance Company v. A. L. Allen and Dovie Moore Allen
  Fifth Circuit· 1956-06-30· cited 47×
• State v. Werner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-04-04· cited 34×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-05-27· cited 30×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-12-08· cited 15×
• Walkup v. Pratt
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1820-06-15· cited 11×
• Arbaugh v. Director, Patuxent Institution
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-07-28· cited 7×
• Savoy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-07-10· cited 7×
• Lake Roland Elevated Ry. Co. v. Weir
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1897-06-23· cited 7×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-06-10· cited 3×