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.

• holding that defendant's letter to trial court, written in the present tense, was sufficient to trigger inquiry
• holding that the Maryland resisting arrest statute retains the offense’s common law elements
• holding that the Maryland resisting arrest statute retains the offense’s common law elements
• noting that “the onus [is] on the [circuit [c]ourt to ‘permit the defendant to explain the reasons for the request.’ ”
• “(1) [T]he defendant was arrested; (2) the arrest was lawful; and (3) the defendant refused to submit to the arrest.”
• “(1) [T]he defendant was arrested; (2) the arrest was lawful; and (3) the defendant refused to submit to the arrest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Marcel Aparicio-Soria
  Fourth Circuit· 2014-01-14· cited 60×
• State v. Graves
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-04-22· cited 14×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-10-20· cited 12×
• Gambrill v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2014-02-27· cited 5×
• Young v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-12-01· cited 5×
• Weathers v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-12-01· cited 4×
• State v. Weddington
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2018-02-21· cited 2×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2018-01-19
• State v. Brooke
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-06-26
• Akers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-02-19

Cites

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

• Parren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-04-06· cited 135×
• Davis v. Slater
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-11-15· cited 132×
• Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Paul
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1970-02-06· cited 88×
• Denicolis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-12-10· cited 67×
• Snead v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-10-01· cited 65×
• Purnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-18· cited 59×
• Barnhard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-09· cited 57×
• Nicolas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-08· cited 56×
• Leonard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-01-08· cited 46×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-12-07· cited 40×
• State v. Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-03-15· cited 33×
• Garner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-05-18· cited 31×
• Board of County Commissioners v. Marcas, L.L.C.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-09-20· cited 26×
• McNeal v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-09-02· cited 23×
• Pinkney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-06-22· cited 23×
• Preston v. Warden
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-04-11· cited 21×
• Knox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-03-20· cited 21×
• Brye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-09-18· cited 20×
• State v. Hardy
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-08-27· cited 18×
• Black v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-05-03· cited 15×