McKay 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 even though the defendant testified “that he acted out of fear when inflicting the injury on his accuser, the presiding judge must, when requested, give an instruction on heat of passion where other evidence supports such a theory”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-02-17· cited 60×
• White v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-04-05· cited 13×
• Sydnor v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-06-30· cited 10×
• State v. McCoy
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2006-05-24· cited 9×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-12-21· cited 7×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-09-06· cited 6×
• Nicholson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-11-05· cited 5×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-07-09

Cites

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

• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-25· cited 201×
• Dykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-11· cited 140×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-06-28· cited 107×
• State v. Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-07· cited 101×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-30· cited 71×
• Bartram v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-10-05· cited 54×
• Glenn v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-07-15· cited 49×
• Tripp v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-06-13· cited 48×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-02-18· cited 39×
• Bartram v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-07-07· cited 38×
• Franklin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-06· cited 35×
• Cunningham v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-05· cited 31×
• Street v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-05-28· cited 26×
• Sangster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-05-27· cited 22×
• Girouard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-08· cited 18×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-06· cited 18×
• Sangster v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-03-05· cited 14×
• Bateman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-01-07· cited 12×