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.

• stating that, “[t]o evaluate the sufficiency of the evidence in a non-jury trial,” “we will not set aside the trial court’s findings of fact unless they are clearly erroneous”
• whether AIDS was used as a deadly weapon depends on defendant’s explicit statement and actions demonstrating intent to infect the victim with HIV
• “When a deadly weapon has been fired at a vital part of a victim’s body, the risk of killing the victim is so high that it becomes reasonable to assume that the defendant intended the victim to die as a natural and probable consequence of the defendant’s actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Khalifa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-08-03· cited 51×
• People v. Shawn
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2004-09-09· cited 19×
• Lan Buck v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-09-11· cited 18×
• Somers v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-04-13· cited 9×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-12-21· cited 7×
• Spencer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-11-29· cited 6×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-08-30· cited 5×
• Thornton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-06-15· cited 4×
• Fetrow v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-04-30· cited 3×
• Pinheiro v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-03-02· cited 2×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Faya v. Almaraz
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-03-09· cited 187×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-06-10· cited 157×
• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-31· cited 119×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-29· cited 115×
• State v. Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-07· cited 101×
• State v. Earp
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-10· cited 74×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1954-02-11· cited 69×
• State v. Raines
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-14· cited 66×
• State v. Gibson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1969-06-30· cited 48×
• Franklin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-06· cited 35×
• State v. Stark
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-07-13· cited 29×
• Weeks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1992-10-14· cited 18×
• Scroggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-12-05· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-31· cited 15×
• State v. Haines
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1989-10-31· cited 14×
• State v. Hinkhouse
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1996-03-06· cited 6×
• State v. Caine
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1995-03-03· cited 3×
• Smallwood v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-07-13· cited 1×