Jackson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that two defendants who robbed a jewelry store and kidnapped hostages were guilty of felony murder when an officer accidently killed a hostage because “their behavior established such a causal relationship with respect to the death as to make them criminally liable”
• stating that Mumford accurately states the law regarding the connection required between the homicide and the underlying felony
• applying felony-murder rule to murder committed while robber attempting to flee
• applying felony-murder rule to murder committed while robber attempting to flee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-13· cited 124×
• Burch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-03· cited 112×
• Fisher and Utley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-17· cited 83×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-05-14· cited 80×
• Hardy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-10-22· cited 77×
• Eanes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-02-08· cited 69×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-11-28· cited 47×
• Fisher v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-08· cited 40×
• Yates v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-10-23· cited 34×
• Weick v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-07-09· cited 29×
• Whittlesey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-13· cited 24×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-07-25· cited 23×
• Goldring v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-03-03· cited 13×
• Sydnor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-20· cited 12×
• Stouffer v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-03· cited 12×
• Selby v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-10-26· cited 12×
• Watkins v. Maryland
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-01-11· cited 12×
• El Pueblo de Puerto Rico v. Calderón Laureano
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1982-11-30· cited 12×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-02-24· cited 11×
• State v. Goldsberry
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-04-26· cited 10×

Cites

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

• People v. Washington
  California Supreme Court· 1965-05-25· cited 351×
• People v. Gilbert
  California Supreme Court· 1965-12-15· cited 251×
• Commonwealth v. Redline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-01-10· cited 229×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• People v. Antick
  California Supreme Court· 1975-08-26· cited 202×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-25· cited 201×
• Newton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-05-05· cited 189×
• Midgett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-09-01· cited 150×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Smith v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-30· cited 143×
• State v. Frye
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-11-16· cited 95×
• Taylor v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1970-12-02· cited 91×
• Pizano v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1978-04-26· cited 65×
• Stansbury v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-11-20· cited 63×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1874-01-29· cited 58×
• Lindsay v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-11-17· cited 57×
• McCall v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-03-19· cited 51×
• Letner v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1927-11-21· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-09-26· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1905-09-27· cited 38×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-12-28· cited 30×