2 Md. App. 291 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We think that the evidence would at least support an inference that there was an attempt to rob the deceased. There was no evidence of an argument or altercation before the brutal assault, that there was ill-will between the deceased and his assailants or in fact that he even knew them, or that the assault was provoked by other than an attempt to rob. The attack was from the rear and began by grabbing the victim by the shoulders to spin him around and by blows to the face. Although, if any words were spoken by the assailants, they were not overheard, the victim cried out on two occasions, ‘You all leave me alone, I doesn’t have anything.’ The purpose of the assailants was not completed only because of the intervention of Mrs. Lovelace. The incident followed the all too familiar pattern of a typical yoking of a drunken man, but with murder as the end result.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 4 Md. App. 648 - Johnson v. State