11 Md. App. 385 - Phenious v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 24 Md. App. 128 - Andresen v. State (1975), 18 Md. App. 291 - Bremer v. State (1973)
32 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Aldridge v. United States · Casey v. Roman Catholic Archbishop · Brown v. State · Kujawa v. Baltimore Transit Co. · McGee v. State
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Maryland, the extent of a voir dire examination rests within the sound discretion of the trial judge. Maryland has no rule or statute defining the objects of inquiry in determining the eligibility of jurymen. The cases have, however, established that questions must relate to some specific issue of eligibility; those which are speculative or in the nature of a fishing expedition may be refused by the court in its discretion.” (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he Court of Appeals has ruled that an inquiry concerning whether or not a prospective juror has been the victim or a witness to a crime similar to the one charged in the indictment is not a proper question on voir dire since it does not provide a basis for challenge for cause.” It is to be noted that on this subject of inquiry as well,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.