Whack v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding trial court erred in denying mistrial because prosecutor in closing argument \told jurors that [defendant's] DNA was present\ when expert actually testified \she could not exclude [defendant] as being the source of DNA\
• finding trial court erred in denying mistrial because prosecutor in closing argument \told jurors that [defendant's] DNA was present\ when expert actually testified \she could not exclude [defendant] as being the source of DNA\
• analyst’s testimony that defendant’s DNA might have been present at the scene did not support prosecutor’s argument, “stating emphatically that [the defendant’s] DNA was present”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Bondsteel
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2015-11-19· cited 209×
• Allen & Diggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-11-26· cited 22×
• Savage v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-08-04· cited 22×
• Diggs v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-08-28· cited 10×
• Beckwitt v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-04-07· cited 7×
• State v. Mosley
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2020-10-26· cited 2×
• Pietruszewski v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-04-07· cited 1×
• State v. Phillips
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2020-06-03
• Georges v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-09-30
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-05-05

Cites

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

• Herring v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 1,330×
• District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-18· cited 782×
• Maryland v. King
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-03· cited 671×
• Wilhelm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-26· cited 259×
• Degren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-01-14· cited 158×
• Tartaglia v. UBS PaineWebber Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2008-12-16· cited 138×
• State v. Hawkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-04-13· cited 132×
• Grandison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-12-27· cited 97×
• Duncan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-09-23· cited 75×
• Spain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-04-07· cited 70×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-11-28· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Mattei
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-02-01· cited 63×
• Rainville v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-11-06· cited 55×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-06-13· cited 53×
• Cooley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-02-10· cited 47×
• State v. Bloom
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1994-04-29· cited 47×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-04-16· cited 47×
• Reidy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-11-24· cited 39×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-07-30· cited 38×
• Gross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-10-11· cited 32×