162 Md. App. 55 - Harper v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`whether [appellant's] disclosure[] to the police w[as] freely and voluntarily made at a time when he knew and understood what he was saying.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 Md. App. 196 - Rodriguez v. State · 164 Md. App. 170 - Lincoln v. State

2. “(1) is evidence concerning the offense or defendants mutually admissible; and (2) does the interest in judicial economy outweigh any other arguments favoring severance? If the answer to both questions is yes, then joinder of offenses or defendants is appropriate. In order to resolve question number one, a court must apply the first step of the “other crimes” analysis announced in [State v.] Faulkner[, 314 Md. 630 , 552 A.2d 896 (1989) ]. If question number one is answered in the negative, then there is no need to address question number two....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 186 Md. App. 631 - Lee v. State

3. “(1) the length of time between the giving of the first warnings and the subsequent interrogation ...; (2) whether the warnings and the subsequent interrogation were given in the same or different places ...; (3) whether the warnings were given and the subsequent interrogation conducted by the same or different officers ...; (4) the extent to which the subsequent statement differed from any previous statements ...; (5) the apparent intellectual and emotional state of the suspect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 195 Md. App. 311 - Pryor v. State