Cooper 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 where “the money was suddenly snatched from the victim’s pocket — no more force being used than that merely necessary to take possession, and there was no actual resistance to the taking,” the record “show[ed] a case of larceny, but not robbery”
• overturning robbery conviction where the “force used was that, and only that, necessary to remove the money from the victim’s pocket”
• “there must be evidence of actual violence preceding or accompanying the taking”
• \there must be evidence of actual violence preceding or accompanying the taking\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-31· cited 119×
• Temoney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-05-05· cited 62×
• Burko v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1974-01-07· cited 25×
• United States v. Martin Johnson
  Fourth Circuit· 2019-12-18· cited 25×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-13· cited 21×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-12-01· cited 20×
• Gaskins v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-01-07· cited 18×
• Spencer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-10-25· cited 17×
• United States v. Wilson
  District of Columbia· 2017-04-18· cited 17×
• Raiford v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-07-13· cited 16×
• In Re Appeal No. 504, Term 1974
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-02-21· cited 11×
• Jacobs v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2004-11-10· cited 10×
• State v. Blunt
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1972-01-07· cited 7×