Ward v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the circuit court erred in concluding that certain “newly discovered evidence” was “merely impeaching,” and remanding the case for further consideration
• “Accordingly, we review a circuit court’s ruling upon the merits of a petition for a writ of actual innocence for an abuse of discretion.”
• vacating denial of a petition for writ of actual innocence, where newly-discovered evidence would have prevented expert from offering opinion based on discredited theory of CBLA
• newly discovered evidence can include new testing methods that did not exist at trial and are used to test evidence introduced at the original trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Hunt & Hardy
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-06-18· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-07-26· cited 8×
• Snead v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-07-30· cited 7×
• JOEL CASTON v. UNITED STATES
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2016-09-29· cited 7×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-09-27· cited 5×
• State v. Ebb
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-04-24· cited 3×
• French v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-10-31

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Reed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-09-06· cited 224×
• Commonwealth v. LeFave
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-08-18· cited 138×
• United States v. Berry
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-10-22· cited 96×
• Douglas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-10-27· cited 65×
• Clemons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-04-19· cited 64×
• United States v. Higgs
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-11-23· cited 61×
• St. Clair v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-08-21· cited 61×
• Ragland v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-03-23· cited 57×
• Yorke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-04-07· cited 57×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-08-05· cited 56×
• Wyatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-07-08· cited 54×
• Mathews v. Cassidy Turley Maryland, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-11-26· cited 47×
• United States v. Shecham Lafayette, United States of America v. Raymond O. Lewis, United States of America v. Derrick Townsend
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-01-29· cited 43×
• State v. Behn
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2005-03-07· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-30· cited 35×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-04-07· cited 34×
• Hall v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-21· cited 33×