10 Md. App. 106 - McClain v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 33 state decisions

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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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is well settled that a witness may invoke his privilege against self-incrimination where, as here, the criminal action against him is still pending, as where an appeal is outstanding. See State v. Johnson [, 77 Idaho 1 ,] 287 P.2d 425 ; People v. Den Uyl [, 318 Mich. 645 ,] 29 N.W.2d 284 ; Knight v. Maybee [, 44 Misc.2d 152 ,] 253 N.Y.S.2d 59 ; Prentice v. Hsu, 280 F.Supp. 384 (S.D.N.Y.); Stallings v. State [, 136 Ga. 131 ,] 70 S.E. 1015 (motion for new trial pending). See also Pope v. State, 7 Md.App. 533 [, 256 A.2d 529 ] Poling v. State, 6 Md.App. 45 [, 250 A.2d 126 ] Farmer v. State, 5 Md.App. 546 [, 248 A.2d 809 .] Cf. Knox v. State, 234 Md. 203 [, 198 A.2d 285 ] and note, 9 A.L.R.3d 990 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ellison v. State

2. “[A]ny assistance given to one known to be a felon in order to hinder his apprehension, trial or punishment, is sufficient to make a man an accessory after the fact; as that he concealed him in the house, or shut the door against the pursuers, until he should have an opportunity to escape; or took money from him to allow him to escape; or supplied him with money, a horse or other necessities, in order to enable him to escape; or that the principal was in prison, and the jailer was bribed to let him escape; or conveyed instruments to him to enable him to break prison and escape. This and such like assistance to one known to be a felon, would constitute a man accessory after the fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. United States

3. “[t]he murder weapon was the gun supplied to Powers by Matthews. It was this gun, together with the victim’s own gun, that appellant took from Powers when the felons assembled at McCoy’s house. Prior to appellant leaving the McCoy house at 9:00 p.m., he gave advice to the felons to guide them in avoiding police detection. After leaving, appellant hid Pe-cora’s gun either in his own house or an empty house, and he kept the murder weapon in his personal possession until losing it in a dice contest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Outlaw v. United States