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.

• analyzing lay opinion testimony where “ ‘the lay trier of facts lacks the knowledge or skill to draw the proper inferences from the underlying data.’ ”
• collecting both federal and state cases supporting the proposition that proof of the chemical composition of an alleged controlled substance need not be established only by chemical analysis but instead may be proved by circumstantial or indirect evidence
• collecting both federal and state cases supporting the proposition that proof of the chemical -9- composition of an alleged controlled substance need not be established only by chemical analysis but instead may be proved by circumstantial or indirect evidence
• collecting both federal and state cases supporting the proposition that proof of the chemical -9- composition of an alleged controlled substance need not be established only by chemical analysis but instead may be proved by circumstantial or indirect evidence
• “Circumstantial evidence is in no manner intrinsically inferior to direct evidence.... In a given case, circumstantial evidence may be more persuasive than direct evidence.”
• “The determination of whether specific evidence is relevant in a given case rests with the trial court, and that determination will not be disturbed on appeal absent a clear abuse of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ragland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-03-18· cited 55×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-04-11· cited 53×
• Hopkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-11· cited 41×
• Tharp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-12-07· cited 41×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-05-08· cited 39×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-11-12· cited 27×
• Rosenberg v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-12-03· cited 25×
• United States v. Andre Mills
  Fourth Circuit· 2007-05-07· cited 21×
• Massie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-05-26· cited 21×
• Moreland v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-09-26· cited 20×
• Blair v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-03-06· cited 19×
• State v. Brazzle
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2020-07-10· cited 18×
• Portillo Funes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-06-30· cited 15×
• Sinclair v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-09-03· cited 14×
• Bey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-09-26· cited 12×
• SOLESKY v. Tracey
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-04-05· cited 9×
• Matoumba v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-04-28· cited 8×
• Paige v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-11-30· cited 7×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-28· cited 6×
• Walter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-11-02· cited 6×

Cites

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

• EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-07-08· cited 1,699×
• Lightning Lube, Inc. v. Witco Corp.
  Third Circuit· 1993-09-10· cited 830×
• Jules R. Viterbo, Et Ux, (Patricia Viterbo) v. The Dow Chemical Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-09-11· cited 535×
• Philip R. Visser v. Packer Engineering Associates, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-02-04· cited 342×
• Michalic v. Cleveland Tankers, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1960-11-07· cited 323×
• United States v. Kevin Eugene Wright
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-02-14· cited 237×
• Ashley v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 223×
• United States v. Donald Schrock
  Sixth Circuit· 1988-08-24· cited 161×
• Asplundh Manufacturing Division v. Benton Harbor Engineering
  Third Circuit· 1995-06-20· cited 160×
• Chancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-11-13· cited 154×
• State v. Gosby
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-08-28· cited 153×
• Merzbacher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-28· cited 144×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Henry D. Knight
  Third Circuit· 1993-04-08· cited 140×
• United States v. Wilson Tony Harrell, James Hawkins, Anthony Scire, Karl Heinz Harig
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-07-30· cited 132×
• United States v. Dwayne Dolan
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-11-11· cited 129×
• Stebbing v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-16· cited 115×
• Eddie Griffin v. John Spratt and J. Kevin Kane
  Third Circuit· 1992-07-07· cited 108×
• United States v. Primitivo Cortez
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-07-30· cited 105×
• Ager v. Baltimore Transit Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1957-05-30· cited 86×
• In Re the Personal Restraint of Reismiller
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-03-08· cited 82×