Merritt 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 circuit court erred in denying a motion for new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence where the court denied the defendant’s motion without a hearing
• rejecting theory that trial court’s ruling on new trial motion was unreviewable because it involved exercise of trial court discretion
• discussing Washington, B. & A. Electric R. Co. v. Kimmey, 141 Md. 243, 118 A. 648 (1922)
• “Commencing with this Court’s opinion in Wernsing . . ., however, we have consistently taken the position that denials of motions for new trials are reviewable on appeal and that discretionary rulings on such motions are subject to reversal where there is an abuse of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-12· cited 70×
• Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Albright
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-02-26· cited 69×
• Hoile v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-05-07· cited 60×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-02-19· cited 58×
• Bienkowski v. Brooks
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-04-11· cited 40×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-04-07· cited 34×
• Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Ford
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-02-26· cited 33×
• Nash v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-06-20· cited 28×
• Sam Yonga v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-01-28· cited 23×
• Bond v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-01-08· cited 22×
• Mitchell v. Housing Authority
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-05-25· cited 22×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-01-29· cited 21×
• Grandison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-02-22· cited 20×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-10-03· cited 19×
• Newman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-12-11· cited 17×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-16· cited 17×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-02-21· cited 17×
• Whitney v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-09-09· cited 17×
• Minger v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-06-01· cited 14×
• Brown, Bottini & Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-08-24· cited 14×

Cites

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

• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• MacK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-23· cited 168×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-11-18· cited 104×
• State v. Stanley
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-11-18· cited 101×
• Bohnert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-04-07· cited 99×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-11-01· cited 82×
• Buck v. Cam's Broadloom Rugs, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-05· cited 80×
• Yorke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-04-07· cited 57×
• Snyder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-11-16· cited 56×
• Argyrou v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-05-18· cited 47×
• State, Use of Shipley v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-12-06· cited 43×
• Wernsing v. General Motors Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-02-03· cited 40×
• State of Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corp. v. Billman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-10-17· cited 35×
• Kirkpatrick v. Zimmerman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1970-03-05· cited 35×
• State v. Werner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-04-04· cited 34×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-24· cited 33×
• Brinand v. Denzik
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-08-09· cited 28×
• Martin v. Rossignol
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-10-10· cited 27×
• Sherman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-10-21· cited 25×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-09· cited 25×