Melton 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 the statute was ambiguous because it “provides no definition of the term ‘violation,’ and provides no specific direction as to the proper unit of prosecution.”
• “[W]e will not add or delete words from the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lee v. Cline
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-12-13· cited 159×
• Chow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-07-27· cited 113×
• State v. Bey
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-03-27· cited 83×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-10-24· cited 82×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-11-16· cited 72×
• Price v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-06-09· cited 66×
• Sprenger v. Public Service Commission
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-21· cited 53×
• Unger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-24· cited 52×
• Comptroller of the Treasury v. Phillips
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-01-13· cited 48×
• Oglesby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-02-23· cited 45×
• Stanley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-12-13· cited 43×
• Gilmer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-12-07· cited 34×
• St. Joseph Medical Center, Inc. v. Cardiac Surgery Associates, P.A.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-04-12· cited 34×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-06-05· cited 34×
• Donati v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-01-29· cited 26×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-12-22· cited 24×
• 75-80 Properties v. RALE, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-08-24· cited 22×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-11-25· cited 21×
• Kortobi v. Kass
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-08-24· cited 21×
• Snyder v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-03-20· cited 21×

Cites

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

• Horton v. California
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 2,923×
• United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1952-12-22· cited 657×
• Barrett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-01-13· cited 306×
• Degren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-14· cited 158×
• Tracey v. Tracey
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-29· cited 134×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-09-26· cited 133×
• United States v. Coyette Deon Johnson
  Tenth Circuit· 1997-12-16· cited 131×
• United States v. Douglas Lee Dunford, Sr.
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-07-02· cited 131×
• Price v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-11-19· cited 130×
• Randall Book Corp. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-07· cited 106×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-02-13· cited 101×
• In re Victor B.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-08-29· cited 80×
• Dickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-10-09· cited 76×
• United States v. Elton Royce Winchester
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-11-01· cited 75×
• Greco v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-16· cited 75×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-02-28· cited 67×
• Gillespie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-08-07· cited 62×
• United States v. Steven Peterson, United States of America v. Mary Peterson
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-02-10· cited 58×
• Richmond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-04-13· cited 56×
• In Re Anthony R.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-12-06· cited 55×