Tapscott v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “As [the petitioner] correctly notes, criminal statutes must be strictly construed in favor of the defendant”
• language and history of statute resolved ambiguity and thus, rule of lenity was not applicable
• delay of seven months and a few days is not of constitutional dimension

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Klauenberg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-08-25· cited 143×
• State v. Green
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1997-02-26· cited 112×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-02-13· cited 101×
• Professional Staff Nurses Ass'n v. Dimensions Health Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-06-18· cited 45×
• Oglesby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-02-23· cited 45×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-09-07· cited 35×
• Maryland House of Correction v. Fields
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-15· cited 30×
• Ishola v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-04-10· cited 28×
• Rosenberg v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-12-03· cited 25×
• Farris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-08-26· cited 20×
• Boffen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-02-12· cited 18×
• Flores v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-03-03· cited 16×
• Fields v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-02-02· cited 11×
• State v. Ruben
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-07-08· cited 10×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-06-26· cited 7×
• Rendelman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-07-06· cited 6×
• Johnson v. Johnson
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-10-03· cited 4×
• Maizel v. Comptroller
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-04-29· cited 2×
• State v. Barber
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-02-06· cited 2×
• Brown v. Brown
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-01-16· cited 1×

Cites

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

• State v. Fabritz
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-12-03· cited 179×
• Montgomery County v. Buckman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-01-17· cited 128×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-23· cited 80×
• People v. Baker
  California Supreme Court· 1968-07-15· cited 63×
• State v. Tillman
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1964-07-07· cited 47×
• Thanos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-11-10· cited 44×
• State v. Archer
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1890-07-01· cited 38×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-10-08· cited 36×
• Tapscott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1995-08-31· cited 36×
• State v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-04-15· cited 32×
• Singh v. Singh
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-02-06· cited 32×
• State v. Kennedy
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-10-09· cited 31×
• Shelly v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1895-06-13· cited 26×
• Comptroller of the Treasury v. Jameson
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-11-22· cited 23×
• State v. Wyman
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1887-02-15· cited 21×
• Revis v. Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-05-09· cited 19×
• Burdue v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1911-06-21· cited 19×
• State v. Craig
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-01-21· cited 13×
• State v. Guiton
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1898-12-19· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Ashey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1924-02-29· cited 10×