Streams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 74 state decisions

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

1. ““We think the State’s failure, after Streams left the stand, to go forward with testimony which would refute his claim of promises and threats and to show the conduct of the police during the period he was in custody of the arresting officers was enough under the circumstances of this case to require a holding that the judgments appealed from must be reversed because the State did not meet its burden of establishing the voluntariness of the confessions as a prerequisite to their admission in evidence.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 1 Md. App. 81 - Burks v. State · 37 Md. App. 505 - Baines v. State

2. ““It may be enough if one credible witness can testify from personal observation that nothing was said or done prior to and during the obtention of the confession to mar or destroy its voluntary character and there is no claim by the prisoner of improper treatment by others than those covered by such testimony.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 1 Md. App. 190 - Cooper v. State

3. “[I]t would be better for him if he made a statement because if he did they would try to get him put on probation [and that] Officer Butler told him if he did not sign a statement “ * * * he’d throw the book at me, get me more time, that’s all.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 204 Md. App. 509 - Henry v. State