Dotson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that plea agreements benefit defendants who \give up the possibility of acquittal following trial for the certainty of a relatively lenient disposition included as part of a plea agreement\
• holding that it is illegal for a three-judge panel to impose a sentence that is greater than the sentence in a plea agreement that was binding on the court
• stating that a sentence that is imposed in breach of a binding plea agreement is an illegal sentence that can be challenged at any time
• stating that a sentence that is imposed in breach of a binding plea agreement is an illegal sentence that can be challenged at any time
• stating that the Maryland Rules “have the force of law”
• stating that the Maryland Rules \have the force of law\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State Ex Rel. Brewer v. Starcher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-10-27· cited 74×
• Cuffley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-10-28· cited 47×
• Chertkov v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-09· cited 35×
• Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Christensen
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-08-04· cited 34×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-05-10· cited 32×
• Tweedy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-04-06· cited 31×
• Holmes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-09-21· cited 29×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-01-26· cited 29×
• Baines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-10-28· cited 23×
• Carlini v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-12-18· cited 22×
• Mateen v. Saar
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-08-04· cited 19×
• Brown, Bottini & Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-08-24· cited 14×
• Bonilla v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-05-22· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-06-22· cited 7×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-02-07· cited 7×
• Hall v. Prince George's County Democratic Central Committee
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-04-08· cited 6×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-01-30· cited 6×
• State v. Chertkov
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-05-13· cited 5×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-09-29· cited 5×
• Ray v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-09-29· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• United States v. Timmreck
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-21· cited 1,059×
• Walczak v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-03-06· cited 122×
• Morris v. Prince George's County
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-31· cited 117×
• Randall Book Corp. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-07· cited 106×
• State v. Brockman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-05-21· cited 96×
• Madison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-23· cited 84×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-04-10· cited 66×
• Sweetwine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-08-12· cited 60×
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-07-19· cited 54×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-01-13· cited 51×
• Brecker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-09-13· cited 36×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-10-14· cited 34×
• State v. Sayre
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-01-23· cited 32×
• Hauver v. Dorsey
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-05-03· cited 30×
• Bowman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-10· cited 30×
• Sweetwine v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1979-03-13· cited 27×
• Franklin Square Hospital v. Laubach
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-02-14· cited 27×
• State v. Diggs
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-02-20· cited 12×
• State v. Ward
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-03-31· cited 8×