19 Md. App. 376 - Dennett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Fex v. Michigan (1993), State v. Barnes (1974)
36 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Smith v. Hooey · Basoff v. State · Commonwealth v. Fisher · 11 Md. App. 555 - Polisher v. State · 107 N.J. Super. 137 - State v. Lippolis
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Wigmore, of course, states it well: ‘Wherever an utterance is offered to evidence' the state of mind which ensued in another person in consequence of the utterance, it is obvious that no assertive or testimonial use is sought to be made of it, and the utterance is therefore admissible, so far as the Hearsay rule is concerned.’ VI Wigmore, Evidence § 1789, at 235 (3d ed. 1940). See also VI Wigmore, Evidence § 1766, at 177-78; McClain v. State, 10 Md. App. 106, 113 , 268 A. 2d 572 (1970); Nixon v. State, 2 Md. App. 611, 615-16 , 236 A. 2d 304 (1967).” 19 Md. App. at 385 , 311 A. 2d at 443 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We cannot agree that a general statement that the State was not ready for trial, as opposed for example to a statement that a crucial witness was presently hospitalized, can be considered as good cause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for good cause shown in open court, the prisoner or his counsel being present, the court having jurisdiction of the matter may grant any necessary or reasonable continuance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Odhinn v. State
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.