Pinkney v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the elements of deliberation and premeditation are often “treated as a single endeavor”
• explaining that circumstantial evidence alone can provide a sufficient basis for a factfinder to find guilt, “even for [first-degree] murder”
• The appellant court thus must defer to the fact finder’s “opportunity to assess the credibility of witnesses, weigh the evidence, and resolve conflicts in the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Daughtry
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-04-25· cited 56×
• Neal v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-03-25· cited 27×
• Lan Buck v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-09-11· cited 18×
• Whiting v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-12-23· cited 15×
• Dukes v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-01-31· cited 10×
• Sparkman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-03-26· cited 10×
• Lindsey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-01-02· cited 9×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-04· cited 9×
• Breakfield v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-10-04· cited 7×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-12-21· cited 7×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-28· cited 6×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-05-03· cited 6×
• Benton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-08-31· cited 6×
• Shiflett v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-09-28· cited 6×
• Molter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-09-07· cited 5×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-03-30· cited 4×
• Champagne v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-07-07· cited 2×
• Pettigrew v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-07-03· cited 2×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-07-14· cited 1×
• Prince v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2022-10-26

Cites

66 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×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• State v. Brown
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-06-01· cited 781×
• People v. Anderson
  California Supreme Court· 1968-12-23· cited 762×
• Commonwealth v. Drum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1868-07-01· cited 323×
• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• State v. Albrecht
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-10-21· cited 213×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-28· cited 176×
• Riddick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-11· cited 173×
• Chisley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1953-03-20· cited 147×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-05-09· cited 144×
• McMillian v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-01-24· cited 129×
• Gladden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-12-23· cited 117×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-29· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Woodward
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-06-16· cited 111×
• State v. Stanley
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-11-18· cited 101×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-09-12· cited 99×
• McDonald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-20· cited 96×
• Colvin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-03-16· cited 90×