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 the prosecutor’s comment during closing argument violated Article 22 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights
• noting that “the crucial question is not the prosecutor’s intent” when analyzing prosecutorial comments on a defendant’s exercise of the Fifth Amendment privilege
• explaining that in our criminal justice system, the burden rests with the State to mount a case against a defendant; the defendant is under no obligation to help the State in this process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Tennessee v. Noura Jackson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2014-08-22· cited 124×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-04-11· cited 53×
• State of Maine v. Jomo White
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2022-11-08· cited 18×
• Whiting v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-12-23· cited 15×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-07-27· cited 14×
• Molina v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-12-23· cited 10×
• Alther v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-06-08· cited 9×
• Simpson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-04-07· cited 9×
• Choate v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-09· cited 8×
• State v. KEESECKER
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2008-06-27· cited 6×
• Walls v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-07-27· cited 6×
• Molter v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-09-07· cited 5×
• Herrington v. Red Run Corp.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-12-03· cited 5×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-02· cited 2×
• Simpson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-25· cited 2×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-02-03· cited 1×
• Harriston v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-06-01
• State of Tennessee v. Rebecca M. Davis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-11-10

Cites

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

• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Boyd v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1886-02-01· cited 3,820×
• Malloy v. Hogan
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 3,675×
• Sullivan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-01· cited 3,512×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• United States v. Hasting
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-23· cited 1,999×
• Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 1,503×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Mitchell v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-04-05· cited 802×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• United States v. Alberto Calderon
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-11-14· cited 555×
• Wilhelm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-26· cited 259×
• In re Shewchun
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-02· cited 231×
• United States v. Joseph Pitre Edwyn Pitre Angel M. Otero Richard Pitre
  Second Circuit· 1992-03-30· cited 228×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 222×
• Degren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-14· cited 158×
• People v. Neal
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-12-20· cited 146×
• Ex Parte Loggins
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2000-06-02· cited 142×
• United States v. Charles Edward McIntyre
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-08-18· cited 140×