17 Md. App. 1 - Vandergrift v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2012
5 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 Schowgurow v. State · Gray v. State · 16 Md. App. 83 - Bailey v. State · Crunkilton v. Hook · 5 Md. App. 469 - Burley 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before one is disqualified as a witness under this provision, he must be convicted “of the crime of perjury.” A witness cannot be convicted of perjury by judicial fiat. Whatever a judge may think regarding the want of truth of a witness testifying in his court, he cannot deprive him of his right under the law to testify, unless that right has been destroyed by a conviction of perjury in accordance with due process of law.”
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.