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.

• stating that “[o]ur case law indicates that the process outlined in Rule 4-215(e) begins with a trial judge inquiring about the reasons underlying a defendant’s request to discharge the services of his trial counsel and providing the defendant an opportunity to explain those reasons.”
• “Our interpretation of the Maryland Rules is a question of law; as such, we review a trial court’s determinations on matters of interpretation without deference.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-11-22· cited 19×
• State v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-05-21· cited 15×
• State v. Graves
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-04-22· cited 14×
• Sinclair v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-25· cited 10×
• Dykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-08-27· cited 9×
• Poole v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-09-26· cited 9×
• Gambrill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-02-27· cited 5×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-12-19· cited 5×
• Weathers v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-12-01· cited 4×
• Cousins v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-02-01· cited 4×
• Westray v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-06-25· cited 2×
• State v. Weddington
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2018-02-21· cited 2×
• McCree v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-24· cited 2×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2018-01-19
• Hargett v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-11-19
• Womack v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-01-30
• Goodrich v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-10-24

Cites

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

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Parren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-04-06· cited 135×
• Davis v. Slater
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-11-15· cited 132×
• Colvin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-03-16· cited 90×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-05· cited 70×
• Snead v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-10-01· cited 65×
• State v. Bryan
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-12-19· cited 58×
• Fowlkes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-02-10· cited 58×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-05-17· cited 56×
• State v. Daughtry
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-04-25· cited 56×
• Leonard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-01-08· cited 46×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-08-24· cited 45×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-04-14· cited 43×
• Moten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-08-23· cited 41×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-07· cited 40×
• Broadwater v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-09-13· cited 31×
• Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Gress
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-12-15· cited 27×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-06-29· cited 22×
• Knox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-03-20· cited 21×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-05-07· cited 20×