Ross 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 when “several offenses are so connected in point of time or circumstances that one cannot be fully shown without proving the other,” then evidence of other bad acts is admissible to show motive
• recognizing exception that permits the State to show a defendant's propensity for illicit sexual relations under certain circumstances
• recognizing exception that permits the State to show a defendant’s propensity for illicit sexual relations under certain circumstances
• similarly criticizing federal cases for automatically admitting similar bad-acts evidence on intent without any analysis
• similarly criticizing federal cases for automatically admitting similar bad-acts evidence on intent without any analysis
• \[T]he admission of other crimes evidence should be subjected to rigid scrutiny by the courts....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• State v. Williams
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2003-09-03· cited 209×
• Thompson v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1988-08-11· cited 172×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-07-17· cited 171×
• Grandison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-04-01· cited 149×
• Merzbacher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-28· cited 144×
• State v. Faulkner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-07· cited 137×
• Hillard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-10-05· cited 136×
• State v. Hutchinson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-02-25· cited 131×
• Trusty v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-03-04· cited 124×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-09-14· cited 116×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-06-28· cited 107×
• Cross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-05-04· cited 104×
• Rubin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-06· cited 102×
• McKnight v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-07-06· cited 101×
• Harris v. Harris
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-08-05· cited 99×
• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-05-08· cited 89×
• State v. Cox
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-22· cited 89×
• State v. Henderson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2005-05-06· cited 76×
• Attorney Grievance Commission v. Walman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-06-09· cited 75×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-10-07· cited 80×
• State v. Babb
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1970-06-26· cited 63×
• MacEwen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-10-01· cited 56×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1957-04-12· cited 37×
• Francis Ray Robinson v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1966-09-20· cited 36×
• Wethington v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-02-23· cited 36×
• United States v. Jake Frank Richardson
  Eighth Circuit· 1973-04-20· cited 33×
• Gorski v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-04-21· cited 31×
• United States v. Armando Martinez Valencia
  Ninth Circuit· 1974-02-01· cited 28×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-01-13· cited 28×
• Gilchrist v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-12-18· cited 21×
• Chandler v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1974-12-17· cited 14×
• United States v. Andrew A. Williams
  Second Circuit· 1972-12-13· cited 7×