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 merger based on the rule of lenity, decisions in other states, and “Considerations of fairness and reasonableness”
• merger of attempted first degree murder and assault with intent to murder
• \[T]he aggravated assaults ... are creatures of statute.\
• “Considerations of fairness and reasonableness reinforce our conclusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-26· cited 251×
• State v. Lancaster
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-10-07· cited 110×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-04-28· cited 96×
• 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×
• Dickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-10-09· cited 76×
• Purnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-18· cited 59×
• Dixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-05-14· cited 59×
• Marquardt v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-09-08· cited 57×
• Holbrook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-06-05· cited 53×
• Alexis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-03-24· cited 43×
• Jones v. Maryland
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-12-15· cited 40×
• Spitzinger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-10-04· cited 40×
• In Re Montrail M.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-02-24· cited 38×
• McGrath v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-14· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Martir
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-05-13· cited 33×
• Christian v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-06-30· cited 31×
• Wagner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-01-03· cited 29×
• Miles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-04-06· cited 28×

Cites

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

• Bell v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-09· cited 1,300×
• Simpson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-28· cited 656×
• Carawan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-03· cited 474×
• Newton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-05-05· cited 189×
• Snowden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-14· cited 113×
• Randall Book Corp. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-07· cited 106×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-03-08· cited 104×
• Monoker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-05· cited 103×
• State v. Jenkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-07· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 93×
• Hagans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-30· cited 83×
• Whack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-07-07· cited 80×
• Simms v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-11-06· cited 80×
• Hardy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-10-22· cited 77×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-30· cited 76×
• State v. Earp
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-10· cited 74×
• 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×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-02-28· cited 67×