Simmons v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that \the majority of the [Supreme] Court ... shot down its prior holdings that corroborating evidence could be used\
• refusing “to endorse a mechanical test for determining ‘particularized guarantees of trustworthiness’ under the [Confrontation] Clause.”
• concluding the exception is not firmly rooted
• concluding the exception is not firmly rooted
• “The Confrontation Clauses of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and Article 21 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights are in pari materia.” (citations omitted)
• witness who is physically seated on the stand but refuses to take an oath or answer any questions at all is not available

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-04-11· cited 53×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-06-20· cited 49×
• Ebb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-02-14· cited 48×
• State v. Torres
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-12-03· cited 47×
• State v. Matusky
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-09-18· cited 42×
• Graves v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-03-09· cited 26×
• West v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-03· cited 23×
• Tyler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-07-30· cited 21×
• State v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-04-10· cited 20×
• Grandison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-02-22· cited 20×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-03-28· cited 18×
• Leidig v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-08-16· cited 15×
• Roebuck v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-12-23· cited 11×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-10· cited 10×
• Matusky v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-06-28· cited 10×
• Height v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-05-06· cited 9×
• Griner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-05-25· cited 9×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-12-28· cited 9×
• Pitt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-01-05· cited 8×
• Tyler v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-06-30· cited 8×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• California v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
• Bourjaily v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 2,639×
• Idaho v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-27· cited 2,081×
• Douglas v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 1,939×
• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• White v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-15· cited 1,508×
• Lee v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-03· cited 1,066×
• Cruz v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 734×
• United States v. Inadi
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-10· cited 682×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• Maryland v. Moon
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-19· cited 98×
• United States v. Romeo Trinidad Flores, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-02-25· cited 77×
• State v. Standifur
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-06-19· cited 36×
• Chapman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-07-30· cited 33×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-09-17· cited 33×
• Moon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-07-19· cited 30×
• Adkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-05-04· cited 25×