Montgomery 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 jury is entitled to decide the law when there is \a dispute as to the proper interpretation of the law of the crime for which there is a sound basis \
• holding that the trial court erred in telling the jury that its instructions on the law were “advisory” and that the jury “could pay no attention” to them
• holding that jury is entitled to decide the law when there is \a dispute as to the proper interpretation of the law of the crime for which there is a sound basis \ (emphasis in original)
• holding, in light of Stevenson, that the trial court erred in instructing the jury that its instructions on the law were “advisory” and that the jury “could pay no attention” to them
• listing the burden of proof as the first bedrock characteristic “indispensable to the integrity of every criminal trial”
• listing the burden of proof as the first bedrock characteristic \indispensable to the integrity of every criminal trial\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• MacK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-23· cited 168×
• Merzbacher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-28· cited 144×
• Trimble v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-17· cited 108×
• Poole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-01-07· cited 99×
• Hebron v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-07-22· cited 80×
• In Re Petition for Writ of Prohibition
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-04-08· cited 74×
• Bowden v. Caldor, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-06-02· cited 69×
• Gore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-04-01· cited 66×
• Wills v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-03-05· cited 58×
• Barnhard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-09· cited 57×
• Bowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-09· cited 56×
• Unger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-24· cited 52×
• Medley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-07-14· cited 48×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-10-07· cited 43×
• State v. Pagotto
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-11-16· cited 43×
• Vogel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-03-29· cited 40×
• State v. Adams
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-10-15· cited 38×
• Kazadi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-01-24· cited 33×
• Newman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-11-07· cited 30×
• Ruffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-08-31· cited 27×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• Sparf v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1895-01-21· cited 757×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-12-17· cited 109×
• Beard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1889-06-12· cited 71×
• Dillon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-05-04· cited 68×
• Wheeler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1875-06-08· cited 58×
• Lansdowne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-02-29· cited 56×