Ledbetter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 24 Md. App. 128 - Andresen v. State (1975), State v. Lyles (1986)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 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 Dunn v. United States · United States v. Dotterweich · Steckler v. United States · Williams v. State · Heinze 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If we nevertheless assume that there was an inconsistency, the result is not necessarily to reverse the conviction. While it is true that a finding of guilt on two inconsistent counts will be declared invalid in Maryland, it does not follow that a conviction on one count may not stand because of an inconsistent acquittal on another count.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Travis v. State““Consistency in the verdict is not necessary.... “That the verdict may have been the result of compromise, or of a mistake on the part of the jury,, is possible. But verdicts cannot be upset by speculation or inquiry into such matters.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford v. State““Each count of an indictment is regarded as if it were a separate indictment, and the inquiry is whether the evidence is sufficient to support the conviction on that count without regard to the disposition of other counts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford 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.