State v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• a father, who had a history of drug abuse, stabbed and decapitated his 13-month-old child and was convicted of first degree murder
• a father, who had a history of drug abuse, stabbed and decapitated his 13-month-old child and was convicted of first degree murder
• the court affirmed the trial judge's reduction of the defendant’s conviction from second degree murder to involuntary manslaughter, reasoning that the evidence did not support a finding of malice
• the court affirmed the trial judge's reduction of the defendant's conviction from second degree murder to involuntary manslaughter, reasoning that the evidence did not support a finding of malice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pinkney v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-20· cited 26×
• State v. Peterson
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-09-13· cited 15×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-06-30
• State v. Brand
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-03-31

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 2,199×
• Lowenfield v. Phelps
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-07· cited 1,385×
• John W. Duvall v. Dan Reynolds
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-03-04· cited 196×
• Coleman v. Brown
  Tenth Circuit· 1986-09-30· cited 114×
• Leslie Lowenfield v. C. Paul Phelps, Secretary of the Department of Corrections, State of Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-06-22· cited 108×
• Foster v. Lockhart
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-11-19· cited 107×
• Gary Leroy Profitt v. George R. Waldron, Warden
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-10-27· cited 105×
• Darrel Wayne Hill, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-08-16· cited 98×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-09-09· cited 91×
• People v. Kelly
  California Supreme Court· 1973-12-26· cited 88×
• State v. Tichnell
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-06-09· cited 76×
• Edward v. Lawrence v. Bill Armontrout
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-06-13· cited 71×
• Gilliam v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-08-25· cited 64×
• Treece v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-10-11· cited 61×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-06-06· cited 60×
• Langworthy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-03-28· cited 58×
• Bradford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-05-04· cited 53×
• Wiggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-02-10· cited 53×