Quesenbury v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2000
21 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 Wilson v. State · Coblentz v. State · Berger v. State · Simmons v. State · Meyerson 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That this is a matter addressed directly and solely to the discretion of the trial court on a motion for a new trial, following the determination by the jury of the sufficiency of the evidence, is too plain for comment. This Court has repeatedly ruled in so many words that the question of the legal sufficiency of evidence in a criminal case to sustain a conviction is exclusively for the jury to determine. Berger v. State, 179 Md. 410 , 20 A. 2d 146 [1941]; Deibert v. State, 150 Md. 687 , 133 A. 847 [1926] ; Willie v. State, 153 Md. 613 , 139 A. 289 [1927].” 183 Md. at 573 .”
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.