142 Md. App. 94 - Garner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits, absent a waiver, the admission of a statement by a criminal defendant when the statement is made (1) outside the presence of legal counsel; (2) in response to interrogation by the State; and (3) after the right to counsel has attached with respect to the charge being tried.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 183 Md. App. 517 - Williams v. State · 157 Md. App. 600 - Baker v. State

2. “Questions alone can impeach. Apart from their mere wording, through voice inflections and other mannerisms of the examiner-things that can not be discerned from the printed record — they can insinuate; they can suggest; they can accuse; they can create an aura in the courtroom that the trial judge can sense but about which we could not speculate. The most persistent denials, even from articulate ... witnesses, may not suffice to overcome the suspicion they can engender____”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 175 Md. App. 630 - Forbes v. State

3. “an extraordinary remedy and should be granted only `if necessary to serve the ends of justice.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 186 Md. App. 204 - Drake and Charles v. State