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← 231 Md. App. 156 - Williams v. State

231 Md. App. 156 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Bell requires that a reviewing court, when assessing the reasonableness of a search under the Fourth Amendment, balance 'the need for a particular search against the invasion of personal rights that the search entails.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “'criminal activity was afoot' based on his prior contact with [Williams], the information from [the confidential informant], the large sum of cash, and [Williams'] nervousness[,]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “his chest was rapidly 'moving up and down,' the muscles in his neck 'were visibly contracting,' and he was sweating, even though the temperature was a mild 75 degrees.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.