24 Md. App. 644 - Dobson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Commonwealth v. Botelho (1976), 52 Md. App. 327 - Jackson v. State (1982)
39 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 United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that in the trial of a criminal case, evidence showing that the accused has committed other independent crimes is not admissible for the purpose of proving guilt or of showing that because a person committed one crime, he is likely to have committed the offense charged. 1 Wharton’s Criminal Evidence, ... § 240 [(13th ed. C. Torcía 1972)]. ‘Evidence of other crimes is irrelevant where it does not tend to prove some material fact in connection with the crime charged, or where it merely tends to show that the defendant is a criminal.’ See also Bryant v. State, 207 Md. 565 , 115 A. 2d 502 (1955); Wood v. State, 191 Md. 658 , 62 A. 2d 576 (1948); Jennings v. State, 8 Md. App. 312 , 259 A. 2d 543 (1969). Of course, evidence of prior criminal acts is admissible if it tends to show a common scheme, plan, design, motive, intent or identity. Wilson v. State, 8 Md. App. 653 , 262 A. 2d 91 (1970).” (Footnote omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any competent evidence which explains, or is a direct reply to, or a contradiction of, material evidence introduced by the accused may be produced by the prosecution in rebuttal. Shanks v. State, 185 Md. 437 , 45 A. 2d 85 (1945). And what constitutes rebuttal testimony in a criminal prosecution is a matter resting in the sound discretion of the trial court.” Dobson v. State, 24 Md. App. 644, 659 (1975), cert. denied, 275 Md. 747 , Misc. No. 78, September Term, 1975, filed June 2, 1975. See also Lane v. State, 226 Md. 81, 90 (1961).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"... although the photographic identification procedure, depicting only one person wearing glasses out of fifteen photographs shown, was 'impermissibly-unnecessarily suggestive’, when the total evidence surrounding that identification is weighed on the scale of Biggers , there exists substantial reliability for the identification, and the identification procedure did not give rise to a very substantial likelihood of misidentification.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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