State v. Thomas

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 judge abused his discretion in failing to ask question whether any jurors harbored strong feelings towards the violation of narcotics laws where defendant was charged with the possession and distribution of a controlled dangerous substance
• holding that trial judge abused his discretion in failing to ask question whether any jurors harbored strong feelings towards the violation of narcotics laws where defendant was charged with the possession and distribution of a controlled dangerous substance
• noting that a police officer making a photographic identification of a suspect six weeks after an undercover drug purchase “was not a lay witness describing a criminal to police; he was a police officer making a mental note of what he had seen during the commission of a crime”
• bias due to the nature of the narcotics crime with which the defendant is charged
• bias due to the nature of the narcotics crime with which the defendant is charged
• whether a prospective juror has strong feelings regarding violations of narcotic laws

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-05· cited 70×
• Sweet v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-08-30· cited 47×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-04-15· cited 44×
• Curtin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-07-31· cited 41×
• State v. Logan
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-09-01· cited 40×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-02-26· cited 39×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-12-24· cited 39×
• Pearson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-02-21· cited 39×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-07-15· cited 36×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-05-11· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-08-03· cited 27×
• Gatewood v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-09-08· cited 23×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-03-23· cited 23×
• State v. Shim
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-01-25· cited 22×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-11-16· cited 21×
• Newman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-12-11· cited 17×
• Costley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-28· cited 16×
• Wimbish v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-09-29· cited 16×
• Curtin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-10-07· cited 15×
• Khaliq Khan v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-09-04· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• People v. Bolling
  New York Court of Appeals· 1992-04-03· cited 162×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-10-01· cited 114×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-12-09· cited 107×
• Casey v. Roman Catholic Archbishop
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-07-19· cited 104×
• Dingle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-09-15· cited 95×
• Adams, Nelson, and Timanus v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1952-05-09· cited 78×
• Morford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1950-04-10· cited 77×
• Bedford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-11-29· cited 77×
• State v. Higgs
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1956-01-24· cited 77×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-05-08· cited 73×
• Lippert v. Jung
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-12· cited 61×
• Bowie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-09-11· cited 58×
• Langley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-11-02· cited 58×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-02-27· cited 51×
• McGee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-01· cited 48×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-02-07· cited 47×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-07-21· cited 47×
• Grogg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1963-06-05· cited 41×