132 Md. App. 598 - Charity v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably State v. Moore (2007), White v. State (2001)
2 district · 90 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Florida v. Royer · Ornelas 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even a very lengthy detention may be completely reasonable under certain circumstances. Conversely, even a very brief detention may be unreasonable under other circumstances. There is no set formula for measuring in the abstract what should be the reasonable duration of a traffic stop. We must assess the reasonableness of each detention on a case-by-case basis and not by the running of the clock.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a sweeping prerogative, permitting them to exploit the investigative opportunities presented to them by observing traffic infractions even when their primary subjective intention is to look for narcotics.” Charity v. State, 132 Md.App. 598, 601 , 753 A.2d 556 (2000). If the traffic stop is a ploy,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“be conveniently or cynically forgotten and not taken up again until after [the other] investigation has been completed or has run a substantial course.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.