Jenkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “one threatened with an illegal arrest may not use excessive force in resisting such arrest and if he does he himself may be charged with an unlawful assault.”
• even assuming an initial illegal investigation and attempt to stop, subsequent traffic violations committed in officers’ presence served as basis for arrest
• admission of illegally seized evidence waived by failure to object thereto
• admission of illegally seized evidence waived by failure to object thereto
• person has right to use reasonable force to resist unlawful arrest
• \The common law rule adhered to in this State is that a person illegally arrested by a police officer may use any reasonable means to effect his escape to the extent of using such force as is reasonably necessary under the circumstances.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Logan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-02-11· cited 117×
• State v. Valentine
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-05-01· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Moreira
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-29· cited 60×
• State v. McKay
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-07-05· cited 58×
• Braxton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-03-03· cited 46×
• Thanos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-11-10· cited 44×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1969-01-08· cited 43×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-27· cited 27×
• Shelton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-03-20· cited 26×
• Kleinbart v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-10-16· cited 23×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-12-07· cited 23×
• State v. Segovia
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1970-05-01· cited 22×
• Knotts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-02-04· cited 22×
• Crowe and Williston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-10-12· cited 20×
• Dixon v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-08-15· cited 18×
• Halcomb v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-02-10· cited 17×
• Wiegmann v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-01· cited 16×
• In Re Jason Allen D.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-07-12· cited 15×
• Capparella v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-06-08· cited 11×
• Wells v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-01-27· cited 11×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-10-01· cited 93×
• Kellum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-06-30· cited 58×
• State v. Rousseau
  Washington Supreme Court· 1952-02-28· cited 57×
• Shorey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-01-23· cited 55×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-04· cited 41×
• Davids v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1955-12-02· cited 33×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-02-05· cited 21×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-03-19· cited 13×