Dykes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he defendant has a right to counsel appointed at government expense” (citing Gideon, supra)
• “The right to counsel ‘guarantee[s] an effective advocate for each criminal defendant rather than . . . ensur[ing] that a defendant will inexorably be represented by the lawyer whom he prefers.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kerpelman v. Board of Public Works
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1971-04-12· cited 34×
• Weathers v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-12-01· cited 4×
• Cousins v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-02-01· cited 4×
• State v. Westray
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-08-27
• Goodrich v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-10-24

Cites

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

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• Wheat v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-30· cited 1,962×
• Parren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-04-06· cited 135×
• Fowlkes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-02-10· cited 58×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-05-17· cited 56×
• Alexis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-03-24· cited 43×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-07· cited 40×
• State v. Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-03-15· cited 33×
• Garner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-05-18· cited 31×
• Arey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-08-01· cited 31×
• Office of the Public Defender v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-04-16· cited 28×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-08-11· cited 26×
• Baldwin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-05-06· cited 24×
• Pinkney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-06-22· cited 23×
• Garner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-12-01· cited 21×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-05-07· cited 20×
• In Re Elrich S.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-09-24· cited 11×
• Argabright v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-06-07· cited 10×