2 Md. App. 674 - Bury v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Court of Appeals has held in similar factual situations that the occupants of a car are considered jointly in possession of stolen goods found therein. In Pointer v. State, 239 Md. 641 , 212 A. 2d 260 , 2 the accused was held to be in possession of stolen goods found in an automobile thirty feet from where he was found hiding, and from which automobile police officers had seen three unidentified persons flee. In Carter v. State, 236 Md. 450 , 204 A. 2d 322 , passengers in an automobile were convicted of possessing bags of heroin which had been discovered under the right front seat of the automobile. In Shipley v. State, 243 Md. 262 , 220 A. 2d 585 , three occupants of an automobile were held to be in possession of various weapons and tools found in the automobile. And in Wright v. State, 222 Md. 242, 159 A. 2d 636 , it was held that all three of the defendants were in joint possession of burglary tools found in the trunk of the car occupied by them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 5 Md. App. 211 - Burkett v. State