162 Md. App. 512 - Wilkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2020
8 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 Gulf Oil Corp. v. Copp Paving Co. · Randall Book Corp. v. State · Maus v. State · State v. Chaney · 90 Md. App. 406 - John O. v. Jane O.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I would agree that this may well have been a proper case for the death penalty. On the other hand, this was a question of fact for the jury to decide. They decided that you were guilty of murder in the first degree but they recommended—and it is mandatory on the court—that it be without capital punishment, and thus it will be. Now, even though your counsel has argued that the court could give something else than life imprisonment, we don’t agree with this. On the other hand, let the record clearly show we will assume that we do have a right to give something less than the death penalty, but in this case we see no reason in the world why there should be anything other than the life imprisonment in this case because it is just not warranted under the facts of what happened. It was purely and clearly premeditated first-degree murder any way you look at it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilkins
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.