Spence 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 opportunity for closing argument in non-jury criminal case is a basic constitutional right guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 21 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights
• explaining that “the opportunity for summation by defense counsel prior to verdict in a non-jury trial as well as in a jury trial is a basic constitutional right guaranteed by Article 21 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights and the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution”
• explaining that \the opportunity for summation by defense counsel prior to verdict in a non-jury trial as well as in a jury trial is a basic constitutional right guaranteed by Article 21 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights and the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jefferson-El v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-04-06· cited 61×
• United States v. Systems Architects, Inc., United States of America v. Karen Y. Pan, United States of America v. George S. Pan
  First Circuit· 1985-05-20· cited 58×
• Gilliam v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-09-25· cited 43×
• Goldberger v. Goldberger
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-05-28· cited 35×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-08-12· cited 32×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-27· cited 27×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-05-09· cited 24×
• People v. Pena
  California Supreme Court· 2004-02-05· cited 18×
• White v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-01-14· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-12-30· cited 15×
• In Re Emileigh F.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-02-18· cited 13×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-05-13· cited 13×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-02-23· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-13· cited 12×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-04-04· cited 11×
• Cason v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-13· cited 11×
• People v. Little
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-08-07· cited 11×
• Holmes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-02-15· cited 9×
• Colesanti v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-10-05· cited 8×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-13· cited 8×

Cites

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

• Herring v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 1,330×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• Ruedas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-19· cited 130×
• Yopps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-03-23· cited 88×
• Louis West v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-09-05· cited 72×
• State v. Hutchinson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1970-12-16· cited 68×
• Covington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-05-22· cited 50×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-10-24· cited 49×
• Callahan v. William F.
  California Supreme Court· 1974-04-17· cited 47×
• The PEOPLE v. Diaz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1971-09-28· cited 46×
• United States v. Felix Walls
  Sixth Circuit· 1971-06-14· cited 38×
• Thomas v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 1937-04-19· cited 29×
• United States v. Mary Y. King
  Fourth Circuit· 1981-06-09· cited 28×
• Moore A/K/A Smith v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-06-27· cited 28×
• United States Ex Rel. George L. Spears H-7506 v. Robert L. Johnson, Supt. State Correctional at Graterford
  Third Circuit· 1972-06-23· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. McNair
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-09-15· cited 24×
• Hewitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1966-03-31· cited 21×
• United States v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1967-09-26· cited 21×
• People v. Berger
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1918-06-20· cited 20×
• Rome and Modo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-11-19· cited 16×