Merchant 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 an officer’s statement that he did not know whether or not it would be “easier” on the suspect if he told the truth, but encouraged the suspect to do so regardless, did not improperly induce a confession
• prolonged questioning and admonition to “tell the truth”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Culombe v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 1,662×
• State v. Kidd
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-07-18· cited 94×
• William Ralph v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1971-03-01· cited 74×
• Bean v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-04-28· cited 71×
• Prescoe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-05-24· cited 68×
• Ralph v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-10-13· cited 65×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-07-18· cited 64×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-07-08· cited 63×
• Stevens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-06-17· cited 61×
• Hazel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-02-17· cited 61×
• Bartholomey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1971-02-02· cited 44×
• Bulluck v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-02-16· cited 43×
• State v. LaPierre
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1963-01-21· cited 27×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-04-15· cited 22×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1974-04-17· cited 14×
• Ellison v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-12· cited 12×
• State v. Merchant
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-12-28· cited 12×
• Jefferson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-09-01· cited 11×
• Rahe, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-06-09· cited 11×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-12-04· cited 11×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Delnegro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1951-05-24· cited 59×
• Nicholson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1873-06-06· cited 57×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-10-01· cited 45×
• Kier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1957-06-06· cited 43×
• Kier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-05-01· cited 39×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1956-03-15· cited 34×
• Martin v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1948-01-28· cited 19×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1887-06-21· cited 10×