24 Md. App. 334 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Burning Tree Club, Inc. v. Bainum (1985), Sweet v. Cupp (1981)
12 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Reed v. Reed · United States v. Maryland Savings-Share Ins. Corp. · Lusby v. State · Springloch Area Citizens Group v. Montgomery County Board of Appeals · Kelly 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he equality of the sexes expresses a societal goal, not a physical metamorphosis. It would be anomalous indeed if our aspirations toward the ideal of equality under the law caused us to overlook our disparate human vulnerabilities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Finley v. State · Lámar v. State“'[P]hysical evidence need not be positively connected with the accused or the crime to be admissible; it is admissible where there is a reasonable probability of its connection with the accused or the crime[.]'”
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.