Walker v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• sentencing court had broad discretion to impose any legal sentence for common law crime, meaning any sentence that was not “unconstitutional”
• “Each crime has a required element which the other does not. They are clearly not ‘the same offense.’ ” (citations omitted)
• Eighth Amendment and Article 25 are construed to have the same meaning because \both of them were taken virtually verbatim from the English Bill of Rights of 1689\
• “The. intended rape for the statutory assault need only be a generalized rape in the second degree with none of the special violence that makes for rape in the first degree,”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Stebbing v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-16· cited 115×
• Lamb v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-01· cited 85×
• Hardy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-10-22· cited 77×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-04-05· cited 74×
• Gary v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-02-08· cited 53×
• Jefferson Schrader v. Eric Holder, Jr.
  D.C. Circuit· 2013-01-11· cited 51×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-03· cited 40×
• State v. Dixon
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1987-03-19· cited 36×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-12-06· cited 36×
• State v. Holmes
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-08-03· cited 31×
• Gerald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-04-03· cited 31×
• Lane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-12-15· cited 29×
• Wooten-Bey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-10-03· cited 27×
• Aravanis v. Somerset County
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-09-13· cited 27×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1984-07-13· cited 26×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-02-06· cited 23×
• Pair v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-12-22· cited 23×
• Manigault v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-01-10· cited 22×
• Epps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-12-06· cited 22×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-11-03· cited 21×

Cites

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

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• Robinson v. California
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 2,369×
• Bell v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-09· cited 1,300×
• Gore v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 885×
• Simpson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-28· cited 656×
• Ladner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-12-15· cited 631×
• Gavieres v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1911-04-03· cited 625×
• Prince v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-02-25· cited 559×
• Morey v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-11-15· cited 479×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-11-20· cited 248×
• United States v. Gaddis
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-03· cited 209×
• Newton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-05-05· cited 189×
• Metz v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-02-18· cited 112×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-08-11· cited 87×
• State Ex Rel. Sonner v. Shearin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-10-01· cited 83×