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.

• describing the “relaxed” rule as “allow[ing] a conviction to stand based on the testimony of one witness corroborated by circumstances sufficient to equal the weight of a second witness”
• “we are of the opinion that the [two-witness rule] laid down is out of harmony with our system of jurisprudence”
• “It remains for the Court of Appeals or the General Assembly to determine the continued validity of the [two-witness] rule in other circumstances.”
• “While the rule may continue to serve a practical purpose by preventing charges based solely on annoyance or retaliation, … we are not sure that this purpose outweighs the desirability of consistency in proofs for the various criminal offenses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Muhammad v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-11-05· cited 29×
• Williamson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-10-25· cited 19×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-09-26· cited 16×
• Driskill v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1988-09-22· cited 15×
• Hourie v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-11-09· cited 12×
• Stouffer v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-03· cited 12×
• McDonald v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-02-06· cited 11×
• State v. McGagh
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-06-16· cited 11×
• Juiliano v. Lion's Manor Nursing Home
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-03-07· cited 9×
• Palmisano v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-06· cited 3×
• Mason v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-11-24· cited 2×
• O'Sullivan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-12-17

Cites

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

• Johnson v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-22· cited 1,080×
• Weiler v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1945-01-29· cited 290×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-11-20· cited 248×
• United States v. John Edward Jones, A/K/A Liddy Jones, A/K/A Malik Shariff, United States of America v. Robert Avon Jones, A/K/A Bobby
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-02-09· cited 154×
• Metz v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-02-18· cited 112×
• United States v. Neff
  Third Circuit· 1954-04-01· cited 91×
• Vincent v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-06-09· cited 82×
• People v. . Doody
  New York Court of Appeals· 1902-10-07· cited 61×
• United States v. Roberto Flores-Rodriguez
  Second Circuit· 1956-10-01· cited 59×
• State v. McKay
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-07-05· cited 58×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-11-13· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Broughton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 42×
• Marks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-11-26· cited 41×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-04-14· cited 36×
• Waine v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-09-09· cited 35×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-02-28· cited 32×
• Rasnick v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-08-19· cited 29×
• United States v. Palese
  Third Circuit· 1943-01-25· cited 28×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1973-08-15· cited 28×
• State v. Cerfoglio
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1923-01-15· cited 28×