Wanzer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 41 Ill. 2d 401 - The People v. Novotny (1968), State v. Fabritz (1975)
4 district · 72 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pointer v. United States · Baltimore Radio Show, Inc. v. State Baltimore Broadcasting Corp. · Simmons v. State · Callahan v. State · Toomer v. State
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant cannot demand [severance] as of right where there is no basis for thinking that the joinder of the counts will embarrass him in the trial. Such was the rule at common law and it has been consistently followed in this State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no rigid rule and the only limitation is that courts will guard against injustice.” Wanzer v. State, 202 Md. 601, 608 , 97 A.2d 914 (1953). As the Court of Appeals said in McKnight, supra, 280 Md. at 609 -10:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.