Nelson 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 court’s refusal to order a PSI was erroneous
• holding it was an abuse of discretion for a trial judge to refuse to order a requested presentence investigation based on the costs of such an investigation and the judge’s personal belief that there was no need for it
• “If the judge has discretion, he must use it and the record must show that he used it.”
• “If the judge has discretion, he must use it and the record must show that he used it.”
• “The discretion is broad but it is not boundless. If the judge has discretion, he must use it and the record must show that he used it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Morris v. Prince George's County
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-31· cited 117×
• Gunning v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-14· cited 76×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-12· cited 70×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-02-19· cited 58×
• State v. Wilkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-06-09· cited 47×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-04-07· cited 34×
• Butler v. S & S Partnership
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-11-26· cited 32×
• Silver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-06-20· cited 24×
• Maddox v. Stone
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-05-02· cited 18×
• Baltimore City Police Department v. Andrew
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-12-05· cited 17×
• Scully v. Tauber
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-05-01· cited 14×
• Baltimore Sun v. Thanos
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-06-01· cited 9×
• Livingstone v. Greater Washington Anesthesiology & Pain Consultants, P.C.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-08-27· cited 9×
• Ibru v. Ibru
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-09-27· cited 8×
• Remson v. Krausen
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-06-28· cited 8×
• Armstead v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-10-28· cited 7×
• In re: S.F.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2022-02-03· cited 6×
• Sucik v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-02-14· cited 5×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-09-07· cited 5×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-06-07· cited 5×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-05-15· cited 588×
• Logan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-02-11· cited 117×
• Brooks v. Daley
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1966-04-05· cited 57×
• Ricks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-04· cited 56×
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-07-19· cited 54×
• Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America v. Insurance Commissioner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-06-29· cited 50×
• Bartholomey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1971-02-02· cited 44×