White v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the normal standard governing merger of offenses in Maryland is the Blockburger required evidence test
• explaining that the normal standard governing merger of offenses in Maryland is the Blockburger required evidence test
• finding merger based on the rule of lenity and the resemblance of the statutory offense involved to traditional lesser included offenses
• merging child abuse, in violation of § 35A of Article 27, into murder
• considering the fairness of multiple punishments in a particular situation when holding, based on the rule of lenity, that the statutory offense of child abuse and common law murder should merge when the convictions are based on the same act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Chow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-07-27· cited 113×
• Snowden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-14· cited 113×
• State v. Lancaster
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-07· cited 110×
• State v. Thonesavanh
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-09-06· cited 107×
• Monoker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-05· cited 103×
• Abeokuto v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-02-13· cited 92×
• Lamb v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-01· cited 85×
• Fisher and Utley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-17· cited 83×
• State v. Bey
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-03-27· cited 83×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-05-24· cited 76×
• Borchardt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-13· cited 74×
• Melton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-02-12· cited 63×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-08-15· cited 62×
• Tribbitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-03-13· cited 60×
• Dixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-05-14· cited 59×
• Nicolas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-08· cited 56×
• Holbrook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-06-05· cited 53×
• Khalifa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-08-03· cited 51×
• Alexis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-03-24· cited 43×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-09-27· cited 42×

Cites

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

• Albernaz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-09· cited 1,588×
• Bell v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-09· cited 1,300×
• Bifulco v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-16· cited 734×
• Simpson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-28· cited 656×
• Ladner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-12-15· cited 631×
• Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-05-15· cited 588×
• Prince v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-02-25· cited 559×
• Newton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-05-05· cited 189×
• People v. Smith
  California Supreme Court· 1984-04-16· cited 127×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-08-27· cited 116×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-03-08· cited 104×
• State v. Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-07· cited 101×
• State v. Frye
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-11-16· cited 95×
• Whack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-07-07· cited 80×
• Nightingale v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-06-10· cited 72×
• Cousins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-04-08· cited 71×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-31· cited 68×
• Hall v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-05-27· cited 65×
• Huffington v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1986-07-07· cited 64×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-02-16· cited 57×