Howell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that to be a firearm, tear gas pistol “must propel a missile by gunpowder or some such similar explosive”; tear gas itself does not constitute missile
• holding that tear gas pistol was not a handgun because it was not a firearm, i.e., it did not propel a missile by gunpowder or similar explosive (abrogating Todd v. State, 28 Md.App. 127, 343 A.2d 890 (1975))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Schweitzer v. Brewer
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-06-07· cited 59×
• Lusby v. Lusby
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-07-19· cited 55×
• Holbrook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-06-05· cited 53×
• State v. Millett
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-10-19· cited 49×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-02-14· cited 46×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-07-20· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Sampson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-06-22· cited 39×
• Calhoun v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1980-09-08· cited 38×
• State v. Anderson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-07-02· cited 35×
• Ferrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-01-09· cited 33×
• Montgomery County v. Atlantic Guns, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-04-03· cited 25×
• Couplin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-10-18· cited 25×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-12-22· cited 24×
• York v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-11-04· cited 22×
• Mangum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-05-15· cited 20×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-10-02· cited 18×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-03-11· cited 17×
• Pharr v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-07-07· cited 14×
• Kroop & Kurland, P.A. v. Lambros
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-01-06· cited 13×
• Doe v. Doe
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-06-29· cited 12×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tot v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1943-06-07· cited 998×
• State v. Fabritz
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-12-03· cited 179×
• Cearfoss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1875-06-03· cited 60×
• St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Insurance Commissioner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-09-01· cited 47×
• United States v. Stoy Decker and Robert Matthew Cox
  Sixth Circuit· 1961-06-27· cited 38×
• United States v. Tot
  Third Circuit· 1942-10-28· cited 34×
• Giant of Maryland, Inc. v. State's Attorney
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-03-07· cited 31×
• United States v. Nathaniel Brown
  Eighth Circuit· 1974-12-12· cited 25×
• Karns v. Liquid Carbonic Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-05-15· cited 21×
• Gillespie v. R & J Construction Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-07-08· cited 18×
• Wall v. AL ZEEB
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1967-10-26· cited 17×
• State v. Seng
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1966-04-20· cited 11×
• United States v. Tot
  D. New Jersey· 1941-12-06· cited 9×
• United States v. Brown
  W.D. Missouri· 1974-05-13· cited 7×
• People v. Anderson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1932-11-18· cited 7×
• State v. Umbrello
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1965-06-30· cited 6×
• Howell and Kaschenbach v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-05· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Krasner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-02-02· cited 3×
• Haslem v. Jackson
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 1941-11-10· cited 3×