21 Md. App. 91 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Austin v. Mayor of Baltimore (1979), Lagandaon v. Ashcroft (2004)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Ball v. United States · Louisville St Co v. Clarke · 9 Md. App. 7 - Whitehead v. State · Commonwealth v. Ladd · Lickle v. Boone
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases of murder the rule at common law undoubtedly was that no person should be adjudged “by any act whatever to kill another who does not die by it within a year and a day thereafter....” And such is the rule in this country in prosecutions for murder, except in jurisdictions where it may be otherwise prescribed by statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the stroke, or poyson, & c. be given the first day of January, the year shall end the last day of December: for though the stroke, or poyson, & c. were given in the afternoon of the first day of January, yet that shall be accounted a whole day, for regularly the law maketh no fraction of a day: and the day was added [ie., the rule became a year and a day, rather than a year], that there might be a whole year at the least after the stroke, or poyson, & c.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a court is abolishing a rule of law, it is submitted that the proper exercise of judicial power should be explained and supported by broad policies concerning the criminal law ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Vance
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.