Murphy v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that “the resort to additional testimony does not indicate that a contempt is constructive; it is the contemptuous act itself which is determinative.”
• observing that courts which decided that an attorney’s non-appearance is not within the presence of the court were “chiefly concerned that the contemnor be afforded due process in the form of an opportunity to explain his absence”
• $1000 fine; attorney failed to appear at pretrial and at trial; notified court of a conflict 40 minutes before trial but had known of conflict for several days

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Attorney Grievance Commission v. Mooney
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-06-08· cited 99×
• Von Hake v. Thomas
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-07-05· cited 69×
• Banks v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-07-15· cited 47×
• Beit v. PROBATE & FAMILY COURT DEPARTMENT
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-04-28· cited 46×
• In re Dodson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-03-27· cited 44×
• ATTORNEY GRIEV. COMM'N OF MARYLAND v. Ficker
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-18· cited 35×
• Robinson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-07-08· cited 34×
• Attorney Grievance Commission v. Walker-Turner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-08-22· cited 31×
• Ashford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-04-19· cited 26×
• In Re the Contempt Hearing of Nasser
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-12-08· cited 25×
• Hamilton v. Municipal Court of Mesa
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1990-02-26· cited 24×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-03-17· cited 23×
• In re Rogers
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-02-27· cited 21×
• Droney v. Droney
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-01-03· cited 19×
• King v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-07-31· cited 16×
• A. v. Laurins & Co. v. Prince George's County
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1980-10-08· cited 11×
• Hermina v. Baltimore Life Insurance
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-10-27· cited 8×
• Espinosa v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-04-05· cited 8×
• Gipson v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1986-03-05· cited 3×
• Ramsdell v. Doliber
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-09-29· cited 2×

Cites

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

• State v. Roll and Scholl
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1973-01-17· cited 117×
• Arthur v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1965-02-09· cited 79×
• Lyons v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1955-01-14· cited 69×
• Chula v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1962-01-10· cited 66×
• Grant Sykes v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1971-05-10· cited 62×
• In Re Nicholas R. Allis
  Ninth Circuit· 1976-05-13· cited 46×
• In Re David C. Niblack
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-06-05· cited 42×
• United States v. Robert E. Delahanty, Neville Tucker
  Sixth Circuit· 1973-12-18· cited 42×
• Kandel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1969-03-12· cited 33×
• Matter of Hunt
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-12-10· cited 32×
• Giant of Maryland, Inc. v. State's Attorney
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-03-07· cited 31×
• Winter v. Crowley
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1967-02-08· cited 29×
• Tyler v. Baltimore County
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1969-12-08· cited 26×
• In Re George Gates
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-05-17· cited 24×
• Harford County Education Ass'n v. Board of Education
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-12-09· cited 23×
• Weaver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1966-12-12· cited 22×
• Appeal of Gregory
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-05-22· cited 22×
• In re McHugh
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1908-05-01· cited 21×
• In Re Rosen
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1974-02-13· cited 19×
• Pearson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-03· cited 16×