19 Md. App. 714 - Blondes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]e adopt as the rule with respect to a non-jury trial, that the indictment, information or charging document having been brought to trial on the general issue, jeopardy attaches when the first witness is sworn.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hart v. State · State v. Daniels

2. ““With respect to a non-jury trial, the law is more equivocal as to the time when jeopardy attaches. In addition to the imprecise standard of ‘the commencement of trial’, the cases refer to ‘the swearing of the first witness’ or ‘the introduction of testimony’, or ‘the hearing of evidence’. In some cases these three phrases seem to be treated as synonymous. In others there appears to be an effort to distinguish them. When the witness takes the oath, he is sworn; when he gives his name and address, testimony is introduced; when he testifies on the merits, evidence is heard. The majority of the cases couch the rule in terms of the hearing of evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Daniels