23 Md. App. 151 - White v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Bellamy v. State (2008), 52 Md. App. 327 - Jackson v. State (1982)
58 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 Harrison v. United States · 5 Md. App. 450 - Williams v. State · 18 Md. App. 291 - Bremer v. State · 8 Md. App. 100 - Lindsay v. State · Brice 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Petitioner] may not take advantage of an obscurely situate[d], undecided motion.... If the question is not of such importance to [defense counsel] that he remembers to request an answer, the court cannot be charged with screening previously decided motions to discern an unanswered sentence obscured by a plethora of unrelated issues. Nor can we permit such distended motions to be set as a trap for an unwary judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(ii) The result has been a substantial increase in the number of persons killed or injured which is traceable, in large part, to the carrying of handguns on the streets and public ways by persons inclined to use them in criminal activity....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellant may not take advantage of an obscurely situate, undecided motion and stand mute in the face of repeated requests by the judge for all pending motions to be decided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Capers 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.