139 Md. App. 412 - Sutton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 164 Md. App. 95 - Marquardt v. State (2005), 151 Md. App. 64 - Behrel v. State (2003)
34 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 Faretta v. California · State v. Evans · Conyers v. State · State v. Hutchinson · Dykes 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the premise[ ] of an accused being permitted to raise the defense of self-defense to the charge of robbery borders on the absurd.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“self-defense is not a defense to felony murder”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he person who kills another while engaged in committing a felony cannot escape conviction from murder in the first degree, by showing that his intent was not to kill, but to defend his own life or person ....”
1 later decision 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.