State v. Cox

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court abused its discretion when it sustained State’s objection on relevancy grounds to cross-examination of victim about criminal assault charge brought against third party in separate incident and later recanted
• holding it was reversible error to refuse cross-examination of the victim regarding prior false claims
• noting that when one side’s case is based on the testimony of one witness, the Court “must be satisfied that there is no reasonable possibility that the evidence [erroneously admitted] may have contributed to the rendition of the guilty verdict”
• The right to cross-examine is not absolute and may be restricted by the trial judge in the exercise of sound discretion
• posing nude not sexual conduct excludable under rape shield law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lopez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-05-03· cited 352×
• Merzbacher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-28· cited 144×
• Clinebell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-04-22· cited 143×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-06-28· cited 139×
• State v. Wyrick
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-05-04· cited 110×
• Ware v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-11-18· cited 104×
• Grandison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-12-27· cited 97×
• Smallwood v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-08-06· cited 72×
• Spain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-04-07· cited 70×
• MEDICAL MUTUAL LIABILITY INS. SOC. OF MARYLAND v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-03-29· cited 64×
• State v. Guenther
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2004-08-09· cited 63×
• State v. Kelley
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-05-18· cited 59×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-11-12· cited 58×
• ACandS, Inc. v. Godwin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-10-18· cited 57×
• Dionas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-12-10· cited 57×
• Attorney Grievance Commission v. McDonald
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-02-21· cited 53×
• State v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-05-12· cited 50×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-06-20· cited 49×
• Ebb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-02-14· cited 48×
• United States v. Stamper
  W.D. North Carolina· 1991-06-12· cited 45×

Cites

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

• Alford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-02-24· cited 1,352×
• Smith v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-01-29· cited 763×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-12· cited 201×
• Martens Chevrolet, Inc. v. Seney
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-01-05· cited 185×
• Ricketts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-11-06· cited 73×
• Linkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1953-04-17· cited 68×
• Kantor v. Ash
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-01-17· cited 64×
• MacEwen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-10-01· cited 56×
• Williams v. Graff
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-10-01· cited 49×
• Plank v. Summers
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1954-12-13· cited 48×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-11-07· cited 43×
• DeLilly v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-04-28· cited 34×
• Shupe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-04-07· cited 31×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-07-24· cited 30×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-04-06· cited 28×
• Williams v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 26×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-07-13· cited 25×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-01-08· cited 22×
• United States v. Schiller
  Second Circuit· 1951-03-06· cited 18×