Dow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Tucker v. State (1966), State v. Intercontinental, Ltd. (1985)
34 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Asner v. State · Martini v. State · Wilson v. State · Giordano v. State · Carpenter 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The historical background which led to the prohibitions against unlawful search and seizure found in the Federal and State Constitutions is set forth in Asner v. State, 193 Md. 68, 75, 65 A.2d 881. Generally, the statutory implementations of these constitutional safeguards have authorized, and most of the decisions deal with, the search of places and things but not of persons. However, in Maryland, the Legislature by Code (1951), Art. 27, Sec. 328, has permitted the issuance of a warrant authorizing police to ‘ * * * search such suspected individual, building, apartment, premises, place or thing, and to seize any property found liable to seizure under the criminal laws of this State, provided that any such search warrant shall name or describe, with reasonable particularity, the individual, building, apartment, premises, place or thing to be searched * * *.’ (Emphasis supplied). The requirement of the Code is that the warrant describe an individual to be searched with reasonable particularity. If this is done, the warrant is not a general warrant condemned by the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The warrant commanded the police ‘to go to the vicinity of 2115 W. North Ave., Baltimore City, State of Maryland; and there diligently search the pockets of the clothing of the said three colored men who are previously described and who will be identified by the said Officer * * *.’ The police, upon obtaining the warrant, immediately went to the vicinity of 2210 Presstman Street [a location eight blocks from 2115 W. North Ave.] and there searched and arrested the two appellants, finding on one a package of lottery slips and on the other, a cut card, which is used in lottery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a warrant is essentially valid or is valid as to one command and not as to the other, the parts not essential or invalid may be treated as surplusage.”
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.