Terry v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that where the evidence is inadmissible and a curative instruction would not have rendered the error harmless, the defendant did not waive right to raise issue of other crimes evidence by rejecting the judge’s offer for a limiting instruction
• holding that where the evidence is inadmissible and a curative instruction would not have rendered the error harmless, the defendant did not waive right to raise issue of other crimes evidence by rejecting the judge's offer for a limiting instruction
• noting that, although the opening statement is not evidence, “the general principles involved in allowing a party to ‘meet fire with fire’ are applicable”
• noting that, although the opening statement is not evidence, \the general principles involved in allowing a party to `meet fire with fire' are applicable\
• stating that such evidence “may tend to confuse the jurors, predispose them to a belief in the defendant’s guilt, or prejudice their minds against the defendant.”
• explaining that evidence of prior criminal acts is inadmissible because it may tend to confuse jurors, predispose them to a belief in the defendant's guilt, or prejudice their minds against the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Randall v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 170×
• Merzbacher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-28· cited 144×
• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-05-17· cited 137×
• Ayers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-07-21· cited 72×
• Snyder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-11-16· cited 56×
• Streater v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-02-17· cited 53×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-04-16· cited 47×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-09· cited 44×
• State v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-14· cited 41×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-11-21· cited 41×
• Odum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-02-23· cited 29×
• Hannah v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-06-29· cited 20×
• Behrel v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-05-07· cited 20×
• People v. Stanbridge
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2004-05-04· cited 19×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-09-29· cited 15×
• Coffey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-07· cited 14×
• Lockhart v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-04-26· cited 14×
• Little v. Schneider
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-08-22· cited 13×
• Ridgeway v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-09-04· cited 11×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-07-10· cited 10×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Green v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 672×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-12· cited 201×
• State v. Faulkner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-07· cited 137×
• Cross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-05-04· cited 104×
• Lodowski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-08-22· cited 91×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-11-01· cited 82×
• Lodowski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-24· cited 74×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-08-31· cited 69×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-11-10· cited 22×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-03-13· cited 16×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-12-08· cited 15×