12 Md. App. 516 - Silbert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably 33 Md. App. 115 - Bartram v. State (1976), In re Final Grand Jury Report Concerning the Torrington Police Department (1985)
51 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 United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Marchetti v. United States · Dennis v. United States · Grosso v. United States · Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [T]o establish a conspiracy, it is not necessary that there be any formal agreement manifested by formal words, written or spoken; it is enough if the parties tacitly come to an understanding in regard to the unlawful purpose and this may be inferred from sufficiently significant circumstances. * * *””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“particularized need,” there would be justification for a discreet and limited lifting of the grand jury secrecy rule to allow the use of the grand jury transcript at trial to impeach a witness, to refresh his recollection, or to test his credibility. More recently, however, the Court of Appeals observed:”
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.