Cross v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that all, some, or no other bad act evidence may be admissible depending on the application of the balancing test in 5-404(b)
• the threat posed by such inconsistent verdicts is not that the jury may have been confused, but that defendant may suffer double punishment
• “[Ejvidence which tends to show that the accused committed another crime independent of that for which he is on trial, even one of the same type, is inadmissible.” (emphasis added)
• “In the judicious determination of this issue [the trial court] should carefully weigh the necessity for and probativeness of the evidence concerning the collateral criminal act against the untoward prejudice which is likely to be the consequence of its admission.”
• \In the judicious determination of this issue [the trial court] should carefully weigh the necessity for and probativeness of the evidence concerning the collateral criminal act against the untoward prejudice which is likely to be the consequence of its admission.\
• “In some cases, [the 5- 404(b) balancing test] may require that evidence of the criminal actions of the defendant be totally excluded; in others, admission of portions or all of the evidence of the defendant’s specific criminal actions may be permissible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-05-17· cited 137×
• State v. Faulkner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-07· cited 137×
• Lodowski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-24· cited 74×
• 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×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-31· cited 68×
• Straughn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-10-07· cited 53×
• Streater v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-02-17· cited 53×
• Terry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-01· cited 53×
• Wieland v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-28· cited 45×
• State v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-14· cited 41×
• Vogel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-03-29· cited 40×
• Hurst v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-07-31· cited 39×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-03-09· cited 38×
• DENO CONSTANTINE KANARAS v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-05-06· cited 35×
• Emory v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-09-29· cited 34×
• State v. Werner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-04-04· cited 34×
• Myers v. Celotex Corp.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1991-09-10· cited 34×

Cites

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

• People v. Hildebrandt
  New York Court of Appeals· 1955-04-14· cited 221×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-12· cited 201×
• McKnight v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-07-06· cited 101×
• Brewer v. Mele
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-12-20· cited 98×
• People v. Fiore
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-05-08· cited 88×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-10-07· cited 80×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-09-01· cited 78×
• Butz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-12-10· cited 56×
• State v. Hepple
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-02-01· cited 55×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-05-11· cited 51×
• Boswell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-12-30· cited 45×
• Ernster v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-11-06· cited 43×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-04-12· cited 39×
• Polansky v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-07· cited 32×
• United States v. Joseph W. Bailey, United States of America v. David Sloan
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-03-03· cited 28×
• Castle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-09-08· cited 24×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-05-07· cited 22×
• Westcoat v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-05-02· cited 22×
• United States v. Arthur L. Herzberg and Gerald M. Barnes
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-09-12· cited 21×
• State v. Titworth
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-05-27· cited 20×