Lowery v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• contrasting Jordan with the case before the Court in Lowery and other cases in which incarceration was a potential sanction
• utilizing the Webster’s Dictionary definition of the word “delineation” from the year the statute was originally enacted
• looking to a dictionary definition to help determine the meaning of a statutory term
• applying Dawkins analysis to criminal prohibition on hydraulic clam dredging in a protected area
• “[W]e review a trial court’s interpretation of a statute through a non-deferential prism.” (Citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
• where “the terms are not defined by the statute ... we turn to a dictionary that is contemporaneous with the drafting and enacting of the language in the statute giving rise to the obligation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-07-08· cited 36×
• Dennis Fusaro v. Charlton T. Howard, III
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-11-19· cited 30×
• Donati v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-01-29· cited 26×
• Fuster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-04-22· cited 23×
• Grimm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-05-04· cited 23×
• Johnson v. Francis
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-11-28· cited 18×
• State v. Phillips
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-03-20· cited 14×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-11-19· cited 11×
• Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City v. Kougl
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-02-17· cited 10×
• In Re JOY D.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-01-29· cited 7×
• Lipitz v. Hurwitz
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-10-21· cited 7×
• Satterfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2023-09-05· cited 4×
• State v. Buckingham
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-11-04· cited 1×
• Hayden v. Md. Dept. of Natural Resources
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-09-03
• Satterfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2023-04-24
• Downer v. Baltimore Cnty
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-08-26
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-07-30

Cites

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

• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• Lockshin v. Semsker
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-01-12· cited 244×
• Maryland Aviation Administration v. Noland
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-05-10· cited 156×
• Kushell v. Department of Natural Resources
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-03-14· cited 131×
• Harvey v. Marshall
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-10-14· cited 120×
• Dawkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-10-10· cited 120×
• Chow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-07-27· cited 113×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-12-19· cited 93×
• Clancy v. King
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-08-26· cited 90×
• Warfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-03-29· cited 76×
• Garnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-11-12· cited 74×
• Polek v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-01-24· cited 67×
• Gillespie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-08-07· cited 62×
• State v. McCallum
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-02· cited 61×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-02-21· cited 58×
• Smack v. Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-11-18· cited 56×
• Outmezguine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-03· cited 49×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-02-12· cited 47×
• Board of Education v. Marks-Sloan
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-08-21· cited 42×
• Doe v. Montgomery County Board of Elections
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-12-19· cited 41×