Smallwood 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 trial court committed reversible error by precluding cross-examination of Smallwood’s girlfriend’s bias or interest arising out of two unsuccessful attempts to have Smallwood convicted of other charges
• holding that trial court committed reversible error by precluding cross-examination of Smallwood's girlfriend's bias or interest arising out of two unsuccessful attempts to have Smallwood convicted of other charges
• noting that a trial court should not limit cross-examination until a defendant has reached the constitutionally required threshold level of inquiry
• stating that a trial court may limit cross-examination that \obscure[s] the trial issues and lead[s] to the factfinder's confusion\
• stating that a trial court must afford a defendant the \constitutionally required threshold level of inquiry.\
• stating that impeachment evidence is used to attack a witness’s credibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Merzbacher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-28· cited 144×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-11-18· cited 104×
• Grandison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-12-27· cited 97×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-10· cited 78×
• Richardson v. McGriff
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-11-15· cited 60×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-11-12· cited 58×
• Dionas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-12-10· cited 57×
• 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×
• Pantazes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-08-29· cited 45×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-09· cited 44×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-08· cited 40×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-29· cited 34×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-07-27· cited 30×
• Stone v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-02-13· cited 29×
• Muhammad v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-11-05· cited 29×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-03-01· cited 22×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2010-01-29· cited 21×
• Clermont v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-01-20· cited 20×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-03-12· cited 20×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• State v. Cox
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-22· cited 89×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-01-10· cited 87×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-02-27· cited 77×
• DeLilly v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-04-28· cited 34×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-04· cited 23×
• Fletcher v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1981-12-08· cited 22×
• Franklin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-08-02· cited 16×
• Johnson, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-06-28· cited 15×
• Wells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-10-22· cited 14×
• American Oil Co. v. Metz
  Supreme Court· 1930-10-20· cited 13×
• Hopper v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-07-05· cited 9×