Law v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• issue of imperfect defense of habitation generated where there was testimony that the accused’s home had previously been burglarized and that the accused was scared when he heard prowlers at the door and shot and killed a policeman

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-11· cited 140×
• State v. Faulkner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-11-21· cited 109×
• State v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-02-17· cited 60×
• Cunningham v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-05· cited 31×
• Faulkner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-03-09· cited 29×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-06-01· cited 24×
• Gainer v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1978-10-11· cited 19×
• Finnegan v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-10-07· cited 13×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-07-01· cited 11×
• Pappaconstantinou v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-11· cited 10×
• State v. Adams
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-12-05· cited 8×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-03-24· cited 6×
• State v. Greco
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-07-07· cited 4×
• Belton & Worsley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-12-28· cited 2×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-25· cited 201×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1973-10-31· cited 61×
• Shuck v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-26· cited 32×
• Law v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1974-04-19· cited 28×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-04-24· cited 18×
• Iozzi v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-11-18· cited 17×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-09-09· cited 11×