Davis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• \penal statutes are to be construed strictly\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Finks v. Maine State Highway Commission
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-11-21· cited 62×
• State v. Davenport
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-10-04· cited 55×
• State v. Heald
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-01-03· cited 46×
• Powell v. Secretary of State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-10-08· cited 46×
• State v. Vainio
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1983-10-05· cited 37×
• Mahaney v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-07-15· cited 33×
• State v. Niles
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1990-12-31· cited 28×
• Pride's Corner Concerned Citizens Ass'n v. Westbrook Board of Zoning Appeals
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1979-03-06· cited 27×
• State v. Tullo
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-12-02· cited 22×
• State v. Fournier
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-11-30· cited 19×
• Hurricane Island Outward Bound v. Town of Vinalhaven
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1977-05-03· cited 18×
• Burne v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1979-07-12· cited 13×
• State v. S.S. Kresge, Inc.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-10-07· cited 12×
• Scovil v. Fedex Ground Package System, Inc.
  D. Maine· 2012-08-13· cited 10×
• State v. Ashby
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1999-12-17· cited 7×
• State of Maine v. Christopher Ray
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2025-03-20· cited 2×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1994-07-28

Cites

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

• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Brady v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 7,191×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Coleman v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,808×
• Kercheval v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-16· cited 1,174×
• Smith v. O'GRADY
  Supreme Court· 1941-02-17· cited 586×
• Halliday v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-05· cited 553×
• Adams v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-06· cited 312×
• Alphonzo Edwards v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1958-05-09· cited 161×
• Anthony Joseph Munich v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1964-10-09· cited 154×
• Vincent L. Pilkington v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1963-03-02· cited 122×
• Epifanio Trujillo v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1967-05-18· cited 117×
• State v. Pullen
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1970-06-10· cited 60×
• Bennett v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1965-11-18· cited 51×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1972-02-11· cited 35×
• State v. Ferris
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1969-01-24· cited 32×
• Munshower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1880-12-09· cited 26×
• State v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1966-04-05· cited 25×