1 Md. App. 264 - Spencer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘In every criminal case, evidence, to meet the test of legal sufficiency, must show directly, or support a rational inference of, the facts required to be proved; and the facts must be established, or the inference supported, beyond a reasonable doubt or to a moral certainty, or a reasonable doubt of an opposite fact must be created.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lambiotte v. State · 3 Md. App. 58 - Williams v. State

2. ““The conjectures of the trial judge might be entirely correct. But no matter how suspicious the circumstances, a conviction without proof cannot be sustained under the laws of this State. A person is innocent until he is proved guilty, and there must be evidence which leads to such a result.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2 Md. App. 404 - Day v. State · 3 Md. App. 58 - Williams v. State