2 Md. App. 666 - Berigan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 39 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is equally plain that a warrant of arrest issued in Maryland may not lawfully be executed in the District of Columbia for the Maryland warrant has no validity beyond the boundaries of the State. . . . Since, however, peace officers in the District of Columbia may, under that jurisdiction’s law, arrest without a warrant where they have probable cause to believe that a felony has been committed .. ., we think that the knowledge of the District officers that a Maryland felony warrant was outstanding for appellant provided them with probable cause to arrest appellant without a warrant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crowder v. Commonwealth

2. “[A] peace officer lawfully seeking to arrest an individual in a house (or, as here, in his hotel room), either by authority of an arrest warrant or under circumstances making a warrant unnecessary, must give proper notice of his purpose and authority, and be denied admittance, before he can use force to break and enter to effectuate the arrest. * * * (see Henson v. State, 236 Md. 518 , 204 A.2d 516 [1964]).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Director, Patuxent Institution

3. “[a] warrant of arrest issued in one state may not be executed in another state, for it has no validity beyond the boundaries of the state by whose authority it was issued.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex Parte Morgan