Langley 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 it was error for the court to fail to ask a question regarding juror bias for or against police officer testimony
• noting that the right to a fair and impartial trial requires excluding those who have formed “a fixed opinion in regard to the matter in issue[]” (quoting Waters v. State, 51 Md. 430, 436 (1879)); see also Bowie v. State, 324 Md. 1, 6– 11 (1991
• “[I]n a case such as this, where a principal part of the State’s evidence is testimony of a police officer diametrically opposed to that of a defendant, it is prejudicial error to fail to propound a question such as that requested[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-12-09· cited 107×
• Poole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-01-07· cited 99×
• Dingle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-09-15· cited 95×
• Colvin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-03-16· cited 90×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-02-16· cited 84×
• Bedford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-11-29· cited 77×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-09-13· cited 74×
• State v. Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-05-10· cited 73×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-05· cited 70×
• Bowie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-09-11· cited 58×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-07-21· cited 47×
• Curtin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-07-31· cited 41×
• State v. Logan
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-09-01· cited 40×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-02-26· cited 39×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-12-24· cited 39×
• Landon v. Zorn
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-10-06· cited 33×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-05-11· cited 32×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-22· cited 31×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-02· cited 29×
• Ford Motor Co. v. Wood
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-01-08· cited 28×

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-24· cited 198×
• Paul A. Gorin v. United States of America, Henry Grillo v. United States of America, Saul Glassman v. United States
  First Circuit· 1963-02-20· cited 188×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-10-01· cited 114×
• Ronald R. Brown v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1964-10-15· cited 105×
• Casey v. Roman Catholic Archbishop
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-07-19· cited 104×
• Adams, Nelson, and Timanus v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1952-05-09· cited 78×
• Donald v. Sellers v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1959-09-17· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Futch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 53×
• McGee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-01· cited 48×
• Blas Chavez, Jr. v. United States of America, Nonie Tenorio v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1958-08-19· cited 46×
• Fannie Mae Ross v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1967-03-22· cited 46×
• United States v. James Napoleone
  Third Circuit· 1965-08-02· cited 43×
• Grogg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-06-05· cited 41×
• United States v. Marvin M. Martin
  Seventh Circuit· 1974-11-27· cited 37×
• Tisdale v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-02-27· cited 32×
• Waters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1879-06-17· cited 31×
• United States v. Robert Gassaway
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-03-07· cited 30×
• United States v. Conester Gore, United States of America v. Haywood Liles
  Fourth Circuit· 1970-12-30· cited 29×
• United States v. Roscoe Thomas Brewer
  Tenth Circuit· 1970-06-12· cited 23×
• Grossfeld v. Braverman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1954-01-08· cited 20×