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.

• holding that “[t]he express object of the statute in dividing the crime into degrees, was the mitigation of the punishment in cases of the second degree”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Evans v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-25· cited 201×
• Chisley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1953-03-20· cited 147×
• State v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-11-14· cited 117×
• Gladden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-12-23· cited 117×
• State v. Faulkner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-11-21· cited 109×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-04-28· cited 96×
• State v. Ward
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-12-21· cited 93×
• Fisher and Utley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-17· cited 83×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-05-14· cited 80×
• Hardy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-10-22· cited 77×
• Stansbury v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-11-20· cited 63×
• Lindsay v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-11-17· cited 57×
• Thornton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-20· cited 38×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-12-07· cited 37×
• People v. Dugas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1923-12-19· cited 31×
• Rasnick v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-08-19· cited 29×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-02· cited 24×
• Greenberg v. Dunn
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1967-03-10· cited 22×
• Girouard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-08· cited 18×
• McDowell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-06-08· cited 15×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1859-01-24· cited 62×
• Weighorst v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1855-06-15· cited 45×