Williams 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 that, because of defendant's voluntary involvement with a drug ring, he could not raise the duress defense although he was abducted by three men and coerced to engage in criminal activity to repay a drug debt
• finding that, because of defendant's voluntary involvement with a drug ring, he could not raise the duress defense although he was abducted by three men and coerced to engage in criminal activity to repay a drug debt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Markman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-21· cited 189×
• McMillan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-08-24· cited 22×
• McMillan v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2008-09-09· cited 16×
• State v. Healy
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-08-16· cited 13×
• Madrid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-07-09· cited 12×
• Madrid v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-10-01· cited 4×

Cites

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

• State v. Hawkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-04-13· cited 132×
• United States v. Edgar Cherry Gant
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-11-09· cited 113×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-04-07· cited 93×
• State v. Ward
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-12-21· cited 93×
• Bedford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-11-29· cited 77×
• People v. Merhige
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1920-12-21· cited 77×
• United States v. Curtis Ray Michelson
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-08-23· cited 73×
• United States v. Donny Joel Harvey
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-03-26· cited 69×
• United States v. An Chyi Liu, A/K/A Fat Frank, and Ai-Ti-Ting, A/K/A Eddie
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-04-30· cited 60×
• United States v. James Wheeler
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-08-22· cited 52×
• United States v. Henry Agard
  Second Circuit· 1979-09-17· cited 47×
• Evans v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-18· cited 44×
• Darby v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-03-20· cited 41×
• United States v. Randall J. Lee, George Grindrod and Gregg Parker Lyell
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-01-03· cited 33×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-06-11· cited 33×
• Frasher v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1970-01-14· cited 33×
• United States v. John Stanley Campbell, United States of America v. Riley Ray Fultz
  Sixth Circuit· 1982-04-16· cited 30×
• Wentworth v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-28· cited 30×
• State v. Kinslow
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1990-10-09· cited 24×
• Oates v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-07-13· cited 20×