Duckworth v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• pointing a firearm at a nearby human being, without justification and without being certain that it is unloaded, is generally sufficient to support a manslaughter conviction where an unintended discharge of the weapon results in death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lamb v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-01· cited 85×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-03· cited 49×
• 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×
• Cruz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-01-23· cited 34×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-08-28· cited 26×
• Elias v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-07-18· cited 24×
• Ballard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-01-31· cited 17×
• United States v. Tyren Cervenak
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-04-02· cited 6×
• United States v. Garfield Redd
  Fourth Circuit· 2023-10-19
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-11-06
• United States v. David Shanton, Sr.
  Fourth Circuit· 2025-01-14

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-07-13· cited 103×
• State v. Barberousse
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1985-12-02· cited 68×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-23· cited 61×
• Giles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-06-03· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1893-01-04· cited 48×
• People v. Andersch
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-06-11· cited 30×
• Mills v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-10-20· cited 23×
• Goffer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-05-03· cited 20×
• People v. Schwartz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-09-20· cited 19×
• State v. Barberousse
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1984-10-10· cited 18×
• People v. Carlton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-03-06· cited 15×
• Navarro v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-06-07· cited 4×
• Slay v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-05-27· cited 4×
• Bentley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1962-02-23· cited 3×