Mills v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “a causal connection between gross negligence and death must exist to support a conviction, although it is not essential that the ultimate harm which resulted was foreseen or intended”
• finding that a combination of factors, including use of alcohol and inexperience with weapons, elevated the conduct from mere negligence to gross negligence
• pointing a loaded gun at another was gross negligence under the circumstances
• “[T]he negligence [must] be criminally culpable[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Albrecht
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-10-21· cited 213×
• Lamb v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-01· cited 85×
• Dishman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-21· cited 68×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-03· cited 49×
• State v. Pagotto
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-11-16· cited 43×
• Schlossman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-06-07· cited 26×
• Pagotto v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-07-07· cited 24×
• Duckworth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-08-23· cited 16×
• Albrecht v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-27· cited 16×
• Beckwitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2022-01-28· cited 15×
• Goldring v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-03-03· cited 13×
• Stambaugh v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-03-29· cited 8×
• Holbrook v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-03· cited 7×
• Beattie v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-03-27· cited 7×
• Beckwitt v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-04-07· cited 7×
• State v. Morrison
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-07-28· cited 7×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-06-23· cited 4×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-02· cited 3×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Welansky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-06-05· cited 283×
• State v. Gibson
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-06-03· cited 64×
• Palmer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-10-27· cited 56×
• Craig v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-11-17· cited 52×
• Chase v. Jenifer
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-04-16· cited 34×
• Allison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1953-07-02· cited 28×
• The People v. Sikes
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1927-12-21· cited 26×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-06-07· cited 19×
• Miller Brothers Company v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-01· cited 19×
• People v. Villalobos
  California Court of Appeal· 1962-10-09· cited 17×
• Rolfes v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-08-21· cited 13×