22 Md. App. 257 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2019
19 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 Basoff v. State · Davis v. State · 14 Md. App. 689 - James v. State · Floyd v. State · 20 Md. App. 450 - Robinson 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... An alibi defense . . . merely requires an accused to go forward with such exculpatory evidence as he may wish to present for the trier of fact to consider in determining whether the State has met its burden [of proving the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt]. The trial judges are cautioned not to instruct that an accused has the ‘burden of proof of establishing alibi because such an instruction is wrong. Moreover, an instruction that places the ‘burden’ upon an accused to prove by a preponderance of the evidence his alibi, may effectively erode the only defense available to an accused, and thus, cause him to stand naked and defenseless before the State’s accusation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think the sound view to be that an alibi is not an affirmative defense, placing any burden upon a defendant beyond the self-evident one of attempting to erode the State’s proof to a point where it no longer convinces the fact finder beyond a reasonable doubt. Proof of an alibi, like any other defense testimony, is simply a means of controverting the State’s effort to establish criminal agency.” Daniels v. State, 24 Md. App. 1, 5 , 329 A. 2d 712, 715 (1974); Jackson v. State, 22 Md. App. 257 , 322 A. 2d 574 (1974); State v. Grady, 276 Md. 178 , 345 A. 2d 436 (1975) .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But in order to prove an alibi conclusively, the testimony must cover the whole time in which the crime by any possibility might have been committed, and it should be subjected to rigid scrutiny.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. State
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.