Spencer v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The right to reject need not be exercised in the dark, but is, under [certain] circumstances ... a right of informed and comparative rejection”
• denial of due process for clerk, after defense had exercised all peremptories, suddenly to skip down the list of prospective jurors rather than to continue to proceed in order from the top
• denial of due process for clerk, after defense had exercised all peremptories, suddenly to skip down the list of prospective jurors rather than to continue to proceed in order from the top

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Finke v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-08· cited 55×
• United States v. Ricks
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-10-10· cited 46×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-08-03· cited 27×
• State v. Cochran
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-05-30· cited 25×
• State v. Short
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-01-18· cited 20×
• Burkett v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1974-05-28· cited 18×
• Whitney v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-09-09· cited 17×
• Pollitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-12-20· cited 13×
• Booze v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-08-26· cited 13×
• Booze v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-08-28· cited 13×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-06-02· cited 12×
• Vaccaro v. Caple
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1976-11-03· cited 11×
• State v. McLean
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2002-12-04· cited 11×
• St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, Inc. v. Smith
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-06-24· cited 10×
• Dean v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1980-10-08· cited 10×
• Butler v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-08-18· cited 9×
• Armwood v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-05-17· cited 9×
• Goren v. United States Fire Insurance
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-02-06· cited 9×
• Herd v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-03-17· cited 2×
• Bundy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-04-01· cited 1×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Lewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1892-12-05· cited 760×
• Turpin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1881-02-11· cited 42×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-01-29· cited 31×
• Brice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-01-21· cited 26×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-03-12· cited 23×
• Bever v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-06-24· cited 14×
• Pearson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-06-06· cited 11×