2 Md. App. 371 - Jones 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. ““It is well established that any competent evidence which explains, or is a direct reply to, or a contradiction of, material evidence introduced by the accused may be produced by the prosecution in rebuttal, and that which constitutes rebuttal testimony in a criminal prosecution is a matter resting largely in the sound discretion of the trial court. Lane v. State, 226 Md. 81, 90 , and cases therein cited. Here, appellant’s defense was that he was not at the scene of the crime. The State’s rebuttal testimony consisted of eyewitnesses who testified that appellant was at the scene and, in fact, committed the act. This evidence tended to contradict the defense, and its admission as rebuttal testimony was not improper.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 6 Md. App. 212 - Felder v. State