West 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 the theft statute revisions and consolidation abrogated the common law crime of larceny
• holding that where the victim “was never placed in fear; she did not resist; she was not injured,” “the evidence was not sufficient to establish all elements of the crime of robbery”
• noting that even though the penalties for armed and unarmed robberies are now fixed by statute, the crimes remain common law crimes
• explaining that for robbery, force, actual or constructive, must be sufficient to compel the victim to part with his or her property
• explaining that for robbery, force, actual or constructive, 5 must be sufficient to compel the victim to part with his or her property
• observing that Maryland simple robbery -includes larceny so long as the “victim resisted the taking and ... her resistance had been overcome,” even absent physical injury or force directed at the victim’s person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Oken v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-09-17· cited 141×
• State v. Hawkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-04-13· cited 132×
• Ball v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-09-10· cited 121×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-29· cited 115×
• Snowden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-14· cited 113×
• Wiggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-11-08· cited 102×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-04-28· cited 96×
• Conyers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-05-08· cited 89×
• Moye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-04-16· cited 88×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-29· cited 87×
• Fisher and Utley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-17· cited 83×
• Metheny v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-24· cited 81×
• Hebron v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-07-22· cited 80×
• United States v. Roger Redrick
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-11-08· cited 73×
• State v. Raines
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-14· cited 66×
• State v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-02-17· cited 60×
• United States v. Damien Riley
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-05-09· cited 45×
• Braxton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-11-06· cited 43×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-04-20· cited 42×
• Burks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-05-26· cited 41×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-04-24· cited 100×
• Pugh v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-05-30· cited 84×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-09-01· cited 78×
• Hadder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1965-04-14· cited 74×
• People v. Patton
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1979-05-18· cited 57×
• Dixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-03-07· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-20· cited 51×
• Rice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-11-05· cited 43×
• Polansky v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-07· cited 32×
• Raiford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-07-08· cited 27×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-05-26· cited 25×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-09-25· cited 18×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-02-15· cited 18×
• Raiford v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-07-13· cited 16×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-05-26· cited 15×
• In re Michael G.
  New York Family Court· 1983-01-10· cited 1×