195 Md. App. 311 - Pryor v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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19 state decisions

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

1. “[E]ven if there had been a Miranda violation, the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine would not apply because Miranda violations are not constitutional violations.”). . The gun was dusted for fingerprints, but no useable prints were recovered. The gun also was swabbed for DNA testing. The parties stipulated at trial that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grimes v. State

2. “A fact-finder is free to believe part of a witness's testimony, disbelieve other parts of a witness's testimony, or to completely discount a witness's testimony. Contradictions in testimony go to the weight of the testimony and credibility of the evidence, rather than to its sufficiency.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 229 Md. App. 187 - Elec. Gen. Corp. v. Labonte

3. “[t]here are three forms of assault: the intent to frighten, an attempted battery, and a battery”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watts v. State