Oates v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• describing second degree murder as “the baseline from which everything proceeds up or down”
• accomplice may be convicted on accomplice liability theory only for those crimes as to which he personally has requisite mental state
• accomplice may be convicted on accomplice liability theory only for those crimes as to which he personally has requisite mental state
• “[B]ecause a killing in a heat of passion is manslaughter and not murder, an accomplice who aids while in such a state is guilty only of manslaughter even though the killer is himself guilty of murder.” (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-01-17· cited 186×
• Wilson-Bey v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2006-07-20· cited 149×
• Hunt v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-08· cited 115×
• Fisher and Utley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-17· cited 83×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-10-05· cited 70×
• Harvey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-08-30· cited 47×
• Fisher v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-08· cited 40×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-03-30· cited 19×
• Roebuck v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-12-23· cited 11×
• Abernathy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-03-27· cited 10×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-09-01· cited 9×
• Tyler v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-06-30· cited 8×
• Pitts v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-05-04· cited 3×
• Tina Marie Hunt v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-12-04
• Tolan v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-08-28
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-11-03

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• State v. Raines
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-14· cited 66×