Hunter v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a search for legal counsel was irrelevant 21 to consciousness of guilt because a person seeking legal counsel “may just as well believe himself entirely innocent or only partly culpable, or he simply may not know whether his acts or omissions are in violation of the law”
• comment that defendant, accused drunk driver, had telephoned his attorney, along with emergency assistance, for accident that he had caused, violated fourteenth amendment
• court erred when it allowed trooper to testify that defendant had immediately crossed street after causing fatal accident and called his attorney
• “the rule seems well-established that it is impermissible for the State to offer evidence of, or comment upon, a criminal defendant’s obtention of counsel or his attempt, request, or desire to obtain counsel in order to show a consciousness of guilt”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Colavita
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-04-29· cited 319×
• Rubin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-06· cited 102×
• State v. ANGEL T.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-06-30· cited 67×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-06-03· cited 63×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-09· cited 44×
• Riddley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-06-29· cited 33×
• Henderson v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1993-10-21· cited 27×
• State v. Purvey
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-11-01· cited 25×
• Kulbicki v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-09-26· cited 16×
• Waddell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-11-28· cited 12×
• Drake v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-07-07· cited 11×
• Casey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-04· cited 8×
• Drake and Charles v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-07-07· cited 8×
• Lupfer v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-09-03· cited 3×
• Aundra Lavell Riddley v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-12
• Akers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-02-19

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Fay v. Noia
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 3,950×
• Moran v. Burbine
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-10· cited 3,339×
• Kirby v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-07· cited 3,001×
• Maine v. Moulton
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-10· cited 1,260×
• United States v. Gouveia
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-29· cited 1,098×
• State v. MacOn
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1971-01-25· cited 857×
• People v. Gacy
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 149×
• United States v. George Gordon Liddy, A/K/A George F. Leonard
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-11-08· cited 138×
• United States v. James Ray McDonald
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-07-03· cited 110×
• United States of America, Ex Rel. Isiah MacOn v. Howard Yeager, Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison
  Third Circuit· 1973-03-30· cited 107×
• Lodowski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-08-22· cited 91×
• Kerr v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-13· cited 91×
• Jensen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-11· cited 82×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-10-07· cited 80×
• United States v. Gold
  N.D. Illinois· 1979-04-20· cited 73×
• Zemina v. Solem
  D. South Dakota· 1977-09-22· cited 65×