Thanos v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• whether a defendant sentenced to death may waive time limitation on execution of death penalty
• A particular “hearing was not a post conviction proceeding .... [because the] hearing was initiated by a motion filed by the State, not the defendant, and did not involve a request for relief by the defendant”
• “When a legislative body commands that something be done, using words such as ‘shall’ or ‘must,’ rather than ‘may’ or ‘should,’ we must assume, absent some evidence to the contrary, that it was serious and that it meant for the thing to be done in the manner it directed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Walzer v. Osborne
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-11-17· cited 101×
• Hunt v. Nuth
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-06-27· cited 95×
• State v. Green
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-07· cited 94×
• Metheny v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-24· cited 81×
• Whack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-06-23· cited 79×
• WSC/2005 LLC v. Trio Ventures Assocs.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2018-07-30· cited 78×
• Tidewater/Havre De Grace, Inc. v. Mayor of Havre De Grace
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-02-09· cited 75×
• Cardinell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-07-14· cited 37×
• Jennings v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-09-14· cited 37×
• Chertkov v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-06-09· cited 35×
• Tapscott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-11-04· cited 33×
• Muhammad v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-11-05· cited 29×
• Hammersla v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-02-26· cited 24×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-03-23· cited 21×
• Gorge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-05-10· cited 20×
• Woznicki v. GEICO Morse v. Erie Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-05-27· cited 20×
• Blake v. Blake
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-01-25· cited 19×
• Abington Center Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Baltimore County
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-05-29· cited 18×
• Uthus v. Valley Mill Camp
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-03-04· cited 15×
• In Re: M.P.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2024-04-23· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• Godinez v. Moran
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 1,916×
• Castille v. Peoples
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 1,587×
• Humphrey v. Cady
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-22· cited 784×
• Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-05-15· cited 588×
• Rees v. Peyton
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 281×
• Tucker v. Fireman's Fund Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-11-24· cited 254×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-01-12· cited 201×
• Logan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-02-11· cited 117×
• Randall Book Corp. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-07· cited 106×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-09-16· cited 105×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-04-06· cited 98×
• Cunningham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-12-26· cited 84×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-01-11· cited 79×
• State v. Zimmerman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1971-02-08· cited 78×
• Dickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-10-09· cited 76×
• State v. Renshaw
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-06· cited 75×
• Thanos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-04-05· cited 64×
• State v. Collins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-03-15· cited 62×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-12-14· cited 60×