119 Md. App. 518 - Holmes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2012
22 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 Wilhelm v. State · Ross v. State · Ellerin v. Fairfax Savings · Trimble v. State · Bruce 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because it is not always easy to draw the line between what is rebutting evidence and what is evidence properly adducible in chief, it is often stated that the admissibility of rebuttal testimony rests within the sound discretion of the trial court. The trial judge does, for example, have discretion to vary the order of proof ... The trial judge has discretion to exclude rebuttal ... No trial judge, however, has discretion to make an erroneous finding of fact. When the question is whether proffered evidence does or does not explain, contradict, and/or reply to a new matter introduced by the other side, the trial judge’s finding of fact will be affirmed unless it is clearly erroneous. When the question is whether rebuttal ... evidence was erroneously admitted or excluded for some other reason, the trial judge’s ruling will be affirmed unless it was manifestly wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘we say no' comments implore the jurors to consider their own interests and therefore violate the prohibition against the 'golden rule' argument”) (emphasis in original). . See Blacks Law Dictionary 1599 (8th ed. 2004) (defining ''vigilante” as ''[a] person who seeks to avenge a crime by taking the law into his or her own hands”); Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1395 (11th ed. 2005) (defining “vigilante” as “a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily,””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. State
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