Price 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 inconsistent jury verdicts are categorically impermissible
• noting that because “the Maryland principles governing inconsistent verdicts are neither reflected in statutes nor in the Rules promulgated by this Court[,] ... those principles ... [are] part of Maryland common law” and subject to judicial modification
• where Judge Eldridge justified at great length upsetting Maryland’s longstanding acceptance of legally inconsistent jury verdicts in criminal cases
• A common law rule was modified in light of several recent judicial decisions which undermined the common law rule
• “There is no longer any justification for the one remaining situation where inconsistent verdicts are tolerated, namely certain types of inconsistent verdicts by a jury in a criminal trial. Continued acceptance of inconsistent verdicts, in that one situation, is simply not reasonable.”
• prohibiting inconsistent verdicts in criminal trials

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State of Tennessee v. Marlo Davis
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2015-06-03· cited 175×
• Meece v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 87×
• State Of Iowa Vs. David John Halstead
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2010-12-17· cited 68×
• State v. Arroyo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-07-21· cited 63×
• Unger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-24· cited 52×
• French v. Hines
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-10-03· cited 46×
• Coleman v. Soccer Ass'n
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-07-09· cited 43×
• McNeal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-21· cited 42×
• Wilder v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-03-25· cited 40×
• Givens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-08-22· cited 26×
• McNeal v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-09-02· cited 23×
• Tate v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-10-02· cited 22×
• Travis v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-08-26· cited 22×
• People v. Ware
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-10-08· cited 22×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-11-25· cited 21×
• Teixeira v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-05· cited 19×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-10-02· cited 18×
• Tracey v. Solesky
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-04-26· cited 17×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-12-30· cited 15×
• Hickman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-06-03· cited 15×

Cites

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

• People v. Tucker
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-12-22· cited 550×
• Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-02-14· cited 337×
• People v. Satloff
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-05-13· cited 211×
• MacK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-23· cited 168×
• Davis v. Slater
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-11-15· cited 132×
• People v. Jones
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2003-05-22· cited 130×
• Shell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-07-24· cited 125×
• Chow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-07-27· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Magliocco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-28· cited 108×
• JOHNSON, ETC. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-05-05· cited 99×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-17· cited 86×
• People v. Frias
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-12-16· cited 83×
• DeSacia v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-05-15· cited 81×
• Southern Management Corp. v. Taha
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-11-25· cited 80×
• Whack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-06-23· cited 79×
• United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Jack Chilingirian, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-02-13· cited 78×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-05· cited 70×
• Bowden v. Caldor, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-06-02· cited 69×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-01-06· cited 69×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-06-12· cited 67×