23 Md. App. 177 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2010
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Bell v. United States · Ladner v. United States · Ebeling v. Morgan · Cheng Fu Sheng v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · State Ex Rel. Sonner v. Shearin
Most-quoted passages
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““[T]he sentence on the robbery conviction and the sentence on the false imprisonment conviction would run concurrently with each other, there being no existing sentence to which the false imprisonment sentence was designated to run consecutively. The rule of the common law was that, in the absence of any statute, if it is not stated in either of two sentences imposed at the same time that one of them shall take effect at the expiration of the other, the two periods of time will run concurrently, and the two punishments executed simultaneously. 5 Wharton’s Criminal Law and Procedure, § 2214 (Anderson, 1957); Annotation: When sentences imposed by same court run concurrently or consecutively; and definiteness of direction with respect thereto, 70 A.L.R. 1511 . Compare Code, Art. 41, § 123. See Annotation: Effect of invalidation of sentence upon separate sentence which runs consecutively, 68 A.L.R.2d 712 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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