Palmer 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 evidence sufficient to support a conviction for second-degree manslaughter in a case in which the defendant mother allowed her live-in boyfriend to beat her child brutally and repeatedly, eventually resulting in the child's death
• affirming mother’s conviction of involuntary manslaughter based on her failure to protect her infant daughter from repeated abuse by her boyfriend
• failure to remove child from environment where child was subjected to beatings and abuse was a contributing and continuing cause of child’s death
• mother convicted for involuntary manslaughter for failing to protect her child from mother's abusive boyfriend
• mother convicted for involuntary manslaughter for failing to protect her child from mother's abusive boyfriend
• gross criminal negligence sustained against mother for failure to stop beatings, causing death of 20-month-old, by mother’s paramour when she could “easily” have removed the child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Fabritz
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-12-03· cited 179×
• Degren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-14· cited 158×
• State v. Zobel
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 67×
• Richmond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-04-26· cited 63×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-03· cited 49×
• State v. Miranda
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-08-02· cited 48×
• Fabian v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-06-19· cited 42×
• Fisher v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-08· cited 40×
• Blackwell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-02-02· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-20· cited 35×
• Goldberger v. Goldberger
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-05-28· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Raposo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-21· cited 32×
• Schmidt v. Prince George's Hospital
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-11-15· cited 31×
• Pagotto v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-07-07· cited 24×
• Michael v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-12-23· cited 23×
• Mills v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-10-20· cited 23×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-05-24· cited 21×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 17×
• State v. Hoffman
  Montana Supreme Court· 1982-01-14· cited 16×
• State v. Bowers
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-05-20· cited 16×