Smith 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 accused’s alibi statement was sufficient to require jury instruction even though uncorroborated
• ruling that “[t]he type of confusion and inconsistency contained in this and other testimony given by Smith at trial neither rises to, nor even approaches, the level of unreliability which would place it within the narrow ambit of the principle set forth by the Court in Kucharczyk”
• in turn quoting Bruce v. State, 218 Md. 87, 97, 145 A.2d 428, 433 (1958)
• “The instruction should be given in every case where there is sufficient evidence to take the issue to the jury.” (citations and quotation marks omitted)
• “ ‘[A] defendant may offer uncorroborated testimony and thereupon become entitled to an instruction on such defenses as ... duress ....”’
• “The instruction should be given in every case where there is sufficient evidence to take the issue to the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-07-17· cited 171×
• Dykes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-11· cited 140×
• State v. Rodriguez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1998-07-14· cited 123×
• Hof v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-03-10· cited 80×
• Binnie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-10· cited 77×
• Gunning v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-14· cited 76×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-30· cited 71×
• Dishman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-21· cited 68×
• Pittman v. Atlantic Realty Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-12· cited 67×
• State v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-02-17· cited 60×
• Bazzle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-22· cited 48×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-10-07· cited 43×
• Cost v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-12-17· cited 42×
• General v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-01-14· cited 36×
• State v. Crawford
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-03-06· cited 34×
• Roach v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-04-13· cited 33×
• Marr v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-09-11· cited 25×
• Robertson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-12-02· cited 24×
• Green v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-02-03· cited 24×
• West v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-03· cited 23×

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Pounds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 144×
• Bruce v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-09-11· cited 95×
• State v. Grady
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-10-07· cited 72×
• Kucharczyk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-06-23· cited 68×
• Dillon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-05-04· cited 68×
• Blackwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-11-09· cited 67×
• Lansdowne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-02-29· cited 56×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-08-10· cited 56×
• Pippins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-07-02· cited 44×
• Hardison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-06-30· cited 40×
• England and Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-03-24· cited 38×
• State v. Robbins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1980-10-15· cited 28×
• Pulley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1978-02-14· cited 22×
• People v. McGinnis
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1978-02-27· cited 18×
• Caviness v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1966-12-07· cited 18×
• Wesbecker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-08-20· cited 16×
• State v. Slay
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1966-10-10· cited 15×
• The PEOPLE v. Jones
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1970-12-04· cited 13×
• Hudson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-03-25· cited 9×
• Hammond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1966-03-21· cited 8×