State v. Baldwin

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “the State has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the criminal conduct it seeks to vindicate occurred in the State of Maine”
• “Unlike venue, jurisdiction can never be waived nor can it be conferred upon a Maine Court by consent.”
• reasonable doubt whether rape committed in Maine or New Hampshire; no jurisdiction
• “It is elementary law that the statutes of a state have no extra-territorial force, nor do its courts have any jurisdiction of offenses committed in other states or foreign countries.” (quotation marks omitted)
• constitutional requirement that criminal defendant be tried by jury of the “vicinity” is not violated by trial in a county different from that where offense committed so long as conducted in the general neighborhood of the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Gayheart
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2009-07-30· cited 140×
• State v. Liggins
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1994-11-23· cited 107×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-09-25· cited 106×
• State v. Willoughby
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1995-03-23· cited 86×
• Mitchell v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1990-01-26· cited 55×
• State v. Dennis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2004-12-01· cited 44×
• Rios v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 32×
• State v. Butler
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-02-19· cited 32×
• Opinion of the Justices to the Senate
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-05-31· cited 32×
• McKinney v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1990-05-03· cited 31×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-04-01· cited 29×
• State v. Bowman
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1991-03-21· cited 29×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-04-07· cited 25×
• State v. Svenson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1985-10-03· cited 19×
• Fratus v. Amerco
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-06-05· cited 13×
• State v. True
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-01-13· cited 10×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1977-08-17· cited 9×
• State of Maine v. Emanuel J. Sloboda
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2020-08-11· cited 6×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2023-05-17· cited 3×
• People v. Betts
  California Court of Appeal· 2003-01-15· cited 2×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• King v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1938-05-16· cited 127×
• People v. Cavanaugh
  California Supreme Court· 1955-04-12· cited 105×
• United States v. Dominick Sabella and Charles Lacascia
  Second Circuit· 1959-11-13· cited 81×
• State v. Wardenburg
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1968-04-09· cited 30×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1968-08-20· cited 25×
• State v. Dipietrantonio
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1956-04-16· cited 25×
• Richard A. Woodring v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1964-11-04· cited 9×
• State v. Dyer
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1973-03-06· cited 2×
• State v. Damon
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1903-02-23· cited 1×
• People v. Stewart
  New York Court of Special Session· 1961-04-12· cited 1×