131 Md. App. 1 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 164 Md. App. 95 - Marquardt v. State (2005), 177 Md. App. 188 - Muhammad v. State (2007)
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 Bruton v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh · Gray v. Maryland · Tichnell v. State · Hunt 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.
“If in the course of a trial an error occurs which is, arguendo, indisputably incurable, an objection is still called for so that the court and counsel may explore the necessity for, inter alia, an immediate mistrial. In this case, for instance, the redaction error in question occurred in the course of the State’s case. * * * If the granting of a timely motion for a mistrial were a certainty because an incurable error had occurred, it would be unforgivable simply to sit back and to condemn the court to wasted hours and wasted days in an exercise in utter futility. Even if defense counsel is sure that irredeemable error has occurred, he is required, at the peril of non-preservation, to bring it to the immediate attention of the court. The sin to be avoided is that of the defense’s sitting back and waiting to see what the verdict is going to be before deciding whether to play its “trump” card. Saving precious judicial resources from needless waste is more important than giving a defendant “two bites out of the apple.” Even in the face of incurable error, there is no forgiveness of the responsibility to make timely objection. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In this case, of course, we are not dealing with a Brutonlike assertion by the codefendant that the appellant actually participated in the crime. We are not dealing with the circumstance described by Bruton as one where “the powerfully incriminating extrajudicial statements of a codefendant, who stands accused side-by-side with the defendant, are deliberately spread before the jury in a joint trial.” 391 U.S. at 135-36 [ 88 S.Ct. 1620 ]. We are dealing, rather, with a statement by the codefendant that the codefendant’s “stepmother thought that [the appellant] did it.” It is not even passing on the knowledge of or an observation by the stepmother but only her belief or suspicion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the reference to [the inadmissible evidence] was repeated or whether it was a single, isolated statement; whether the reference was solicited by counsel, or was an inadvertent and unresponsive statement; whether the witness making the reference is the principal witness upon whom the entire prosecution depends; whether credibility is a crucial issue; [and] whether a great deal of other evidence exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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