State v. Hawkins

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the trial judge should have clarified that accessory after the fact and the predicate felony are mutually exclusive
• concluding that the trial judge should have clarified that accessory after the fact and the predicate felony are mutually exclusive
• explaining that the “[trial] judge has his finger on the pulse of the trial” and is in the best position to discern “the reaction of the jurors” to inadmissible references to a polygraph
• observing that “[t]he common law is not cast in concrete; it is subject to change by legislative enactment and by judicial decision” and that this Court “has not been reluctant to change the common law”
• observing that “where there are multiple offenses involved, . . . the remedy for an error in the instructions on one of the offenses depends upon the degree to which the erroneous instruction taints each individual conviction”
• the determination of prejudice is best left to the trial judge because it is he who “has his finger on the pulse of the trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Connecticut v. Porter
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-05-20· cited 268×
• Klauenberg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-08-25· cited 143×
• Dehn v. Edgecombe
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-01-14· cited 93×
• Lamb v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-01· cited 85×
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Garrett
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-08-28· cited 78×
• State v. Raines
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-14· cited 66×
• MEDICAL MUTUAL LIABILITY INS. SOC. OF MARYLAND v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-03-29· cited 64×
• State v. Knuff
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2024-03-14· cited 63×
• Lee v. Martinez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2004-07-14· cited 58×
• ACandS, Inc. v. Godwin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-10-18· cited 57×
• Rainville v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-11-06· cited 55×
• Eiland v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-08· cited 50×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-02-07· cited 50×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-03· cited 49×
• Tierco Maryland, Inc. v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-05-14· cited 45×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-09· cited 44×
• Braxton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-11-06· cited 43×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-07-23· cited 43×
• Alexis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-03-24· cited 43×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-11-21· cited 41×

Cites

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

• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-09· cited 660×
• Harris v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-12-09· cited 400×
• Adler v. American Standard Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-07-16· cited 337×
• Wilhelm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-26· cited 259×
• Green v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-04· cited 211×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-07-17· cited 171×
• MacK v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-23· cited 168×
• McKenna v. Nevada
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 153×
• Pope v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-01-19· cited 138×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-12· cited 125×
• Hook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-13· cited 124×
• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-31· cited 119×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-08-27· cited 116×
• State v. Faulkner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-11-21· cited 109×
• Kelley v. R.G. Industries, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-10-03· cited 105×
• State v. Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-07· cited 101×
• Poole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-01-07· cited 99×
• Bohnert v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-04-07· cited 99×
• Boblitz v. Boblitz
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-06-30· cited 95×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-04-07· cited 93×