Piles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Colvin v. State (1984), 2 Md. App. 80 - Boone v. State (1967)
27 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 Willard Dairy Corp. v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Drews v. Maryland · Connor v. State · McGee v. State · Grogg 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * ‘[P']ast convictions of the accused are to be considered in this case only insofar as they affect his credibility (there are exceptions to this rule, not applicable to the case at bar). You are not to convict him upon things that he has done in the past for which he has been tried and paid the penalty, but you are to consider them insofar as they affect his credibility. That is, that a man who has been convicted of a serious crime is more likely to tell an untruth than a man who has never been convicted of a serious crime. So, * * * in weighing the testimony of the defendant, you are to consider his past convictions insofar as they would affect his credibility in this case.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We cannot say the trial judge abused his discretion in refusing to ask the question, especially in view of his instructions to the jury * * *. Furthermore, the question is substantially encompassed within the general oath taken by all jurors in a criminal case in Maryland”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.