Robinson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• allowing prosecution to proceed on depraved heart murder charge where evidence showed that defendant specifically lacked the intent to kill, but did intend to assault with intent to disable by shooting victim during an altercation
• depraved heart murder involves “ ‘the wilful doing of a dangerous and reckless act’ ”
• “ ‘[d]epraved heart’ murder does not require any specific intent to kill or injure. [It] must be based on general recklessness; the act on which the charge is based must be dangerous to a number of persons, but not directed at any particular person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-02-14· cited 337×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-06-10· cited 157×
• Burch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-03· cited 112×
• Hagans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-30· cited 83×
• Dishman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-21· cited 68×
• State v. Jenner
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 68×
• Bunting v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-05-05· cited 58×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-03-05· cited 57×
• Poe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-02-09· cited 52×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-03· cited 49×
• Thornton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-20· cited 38×
• State v. Anderson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-07-02· cited 35×
• Ferrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-01-09· cited 33×
• Ireland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-08-06· cited 27×
• Pinkney v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-20· cited 26×
• Gibson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-14· cited 26×
• Manuel v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-11-14· cited 24×
• Hammond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-04-09· cited 24×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-07-25· cited 23×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-02-21· cited 20×

Cites

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

• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Benton v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 4,063×
• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-15· cited 210×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-25· cited 201×
• People v. Ramos
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1985-11-12· cited 181×
• Ford v. Harris County Medical Society
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-29· cited 164×
• United States v. Barbara Hinton
  Second Circuit· 1977-01-17· cited 157×
• State v. Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-07· cited 101×
• People v. Poplis
  New York Court of Appeals· 1972-02-17· cited 97×
• State v. Norton
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-12-29· cited 84×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-05-14· cited 80×
• 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×
• Darry v. . the People
  New York Court of Appeals· 1854-04-05· cited 67×
• Lindsay v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-11-17· cited 57×
• State v. Emery
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1958-06-16· cited 55×
• Powers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-06-01· cited 53×
• Reddy v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1978-10-02· cited 53×
• Glenn v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-07-15· cited 49×
• Scarlett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1953-01-09· cited 48×