Scott v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the type of evidence admissible pursuant to the sentencing statutory scheme in a death penalty case is generally more restricted than evidence admissible at sentencing in a non-death penalty case
• rejecting on state-statutory and federal constitutional grounds the use of evidence of unadjudicated offenses during capital sentencing
• “[A] statute should be construed so that all of its parts are given effect and harmonized if possible____”
• admission of evidence of prior murders for which defendant charged but not convicted, at penalty phase, constituted reversible error
• “Custody statutes are considered in pari materia to statutes with related subject matter.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-05-15· cited 588×
• People v. Booker
  California Supreme Court· 2011-01-20· cited 367×
• State v. Bartholomew
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-24· cited 200×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-28· cited 176×
• 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×
• Paxton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1993-12-30· cited 137×
• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-05-17· cited 137×
• Ball v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-09-10· cited 121×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-10-31· cited 113×
• Burch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-03· cited 112×
• Grandison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-12-27· cited 97×
• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-05-08· cited 89×
• State v. Bobo
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-03-09· cited 89×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-23· cited 80×
• Whack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-06-23· cited 79×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-09-13· cited 74×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-07-30· cited 69×
• Comptroller of the Treasury v. Fairchild Industries, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-06-07· cited 62×
• Williamson v. Reynolds
  E.D. Oklahoma· 1995-09-19· cited 60×

Cites

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

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• People v. Harris
  California Supreme Court· 1981-02-11· cited 226×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-02-09· cited 166×
• Hammett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-02-28· cited 163×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-01-07· cited 143×
• Commonwealth. v. Hoss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 129×
• Logan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-02-11· cited 117×
• Bartholomey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-12-04· cited 115×
• Wilder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-31· cited 115×
• State v. McCormick
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-12-10· cited 96×
• People v. Morse
  California Supreme Court· 1969-04-10· cited 92×
• Alexander v. Worthington
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1853-12-15· cited 82×
• Comptroller of Treasury v. John C. Louis Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-07-24· cited 77×
• Milton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-11· cited 71×
• State v. Loscomb
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-10-13· cited 67×