Morris 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 where neither the charging document or the trial court defined an assaultive act that was separate from the robbery, the offenses must merge
• “To evaluate the legality of the imposition of separate sentences for the same act, we look first to whether the charges ‘arose out of the same act or transaction,’ then to whether ‘the crimes charged are the same offense.’ ” (quoting Jones v. State, 357 Md. 141, 157, 742 A.2d 493 (1999))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Alexis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-03-24· cited 43×
• Donati v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-01-29· cited 26×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-07-02· cited 19×
• United States v. Martinez-Amaya
  District of Columbia· 2013-10-01· cited 12×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-07-31· cited 10×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-04-02· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-05-31· cited 10×
• White v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-05-28· cited 10×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-10-01· cited 7×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-12-21· cited 7×
• Kyler v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-07-31· cited 6×
• Purnell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-05-27· cited 6×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-09-30· cited 4×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-03-30· cited 4×
• Alexis v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-02-27· cited 4×
• Paige v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-04-02· cited 2×
• Mason v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-11-24· cited 2×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-08-27
• Christian & Milligan v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-10-03
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-11-03

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• Green v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-04· cited 211×
• Grandison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-04-01· cited 149×
• Merzbacher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-28· cited 144×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-08-27· cited 116×
• Snowden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-14· cited 113×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-11-12· cited 100×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-04-28· cited 96×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-12-19· cited 93×
• Colvin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-03-16· cited 90×
• Grandison v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1986-10-06· cited 75×
• State v. Suddith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-02-12· cited 72×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-31· cited 68×
• Bowman v. Goad
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-09· cited 62×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-03-18· cited 61×
• Purnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-18· cited 59×
• United States v. William B. Ellen, United States of America v. William B. Ellen
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-04-27· cited 57×