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15 Md. App. 163 - Gover v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 1988
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 3 Md. App. 447 - Clarke v. State · 8 Md. App. 598 - Wiggins v. State · 2 Md. App. 771 - Mock v. State · Avey v. State · 2 Md. App. 524 - Dubs 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““It is universally recognized that voluntary drunkenness is generally not a defense to crime, see Michael v. State, 1 Md. App. 243, 247 , 229 A. 2d 145 wherein we collected the various authorities. Although the older law made no exceptions it is now equally well settled that where a crime requires a specific intent, motive, or purpose, voluntary drunkenness may be considered in determining whether or not the accused lacked the mental capacity to commit the crime....””
    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.