Simpkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• outlining history of murder and manslaughter convictions based on failure to care for children
• affirming parents' second degree murder convictions when their two-year-old daughter died of starvation
• affirming parents' second degree murder convictions when their two-year-old daughter died of starvation
• death at least likely, if not certain, consequence of conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Scott
  Second Circuit· 2021-03-02· cited 57×
• James B. Masoner v. Otis Thurman, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-06-24· cited 36×
• Pinkney v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-20· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Fickling
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-04-20· cited 22×
• Beckwitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2022-01-28· cited 15×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-11-16· cited 11×
• United States v. Valdez
  U.S. Army Court of Military Review· 1992-07-14· cited 11×
• In Re Eric F.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-08-27· cited 7×
• Beckwitt v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-04-07· cited 7×
• Reyes v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-03-03
• Reyes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-11-24

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×
• United States v. DiFrancesco
  Supreme Court· 1980-12-09· cited 1,657×
• United States v. Dorothy Jefferson
  Seventh Circuit· 1983-07-22· cited 131×
• State v. Crocker
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-09-18· cited 98×
• Harrington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-09· cited 62×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-01-14· cited 58×
• Lindsay v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-11-17· cited 57×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-11-12· cited 56×
• People v. Burden
  California Court of Appeal· 1977-08-10· cited 54×
• Faulcon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-21· cited 43×
• Blackwell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-02-02· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-03-31· cited 37×
• State v. Sayre
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-01-23· cited 32×
• Biddle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-04-26· cited 26×
• State v. House
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1971-09-29· cited 23×
• Gibson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1899-04-12· cited 18×
• United States v. George E. Evans
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-01-31· cited 16×
• State v. Nicholson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1978-09-21· cited 15×
• Green v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-09-30· cited 14×
• People v. Sika
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-03-04· cited 11×