Contee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Wilhelm v. State (1974), State v. Ouimette (1972)
35 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 New York Central Railroad v. Board of Public Utility Commissioners · Bryant v. State · Giles v. State · Lusby v. State · Brown 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"dead, insane, or beyond the jurisdiction of the court, or on diligent inquiry cannot be located, or that some other circumstance exists which shows that the witness who gave the testimony at the former trial cannot be procured as a witness at the second trial.” Contee v. State, 229 Md. 486, 491 , 184 A.2d 823 (1962), cert. denied, 374 U.S. 841 (1963) (emphasis added).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Q. [by defense counsel] Now, my question of necessity has to follow: Assuming the hypothetical question that my brother, Mr. Ozer recited concerning the facts in this present case today as applied to May, 1967, would you in your opinion be able to say whether or not in May of 1967, when he gave an affidavit to the State and the next month — “MR. OZER [Assistant State’s Attorney]: March of ’68 was the trial. “Q. (Continuing) —and the subsequent trial in February and March of 1968, assuming those two appearances by Mr. Sewell under oath, I ask you now again, whether or not in May of 1967, when he gave an affidavit to the State and in March and February of ’68 when he was a witness in a trial, whether Mr. Sewell had sufficient understanding to apprehend the obligation of an oath? That is the first question. Did he have sufficient understanding to apprehend the obligation of an oath? That’s the first question”. * >Je * “A. I think I would answer the same way I answered that time. I would say yes. “Q. The next question is, in May of 1967 and in February and March of 1968, on which occasions he made statements under oath, did he in your opinion, did Mr. Sewell have the capacity and was he capable of giving a correct account of the matters which he had seen or heard in reference to those things which were the subject of an affidavit in May of 1967 and were the subject of a trial in which he was a witness in March of ’68 ?” “THE COURT: Can you give an opinion in response to that ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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