State v. Babb’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Dorsey v. State (1976), Ross v. State (1976)
91 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 Chapman v. State of California · Fahy v. Connecticut · Rippon v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · 4 Md. App. 181 - Gunther v. State · 6 Md. App. 496 - Bailey 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he assumed proposition that judges are men of discernment, learned and experienced in the law and capable of evaluating the materiality of evidence, lies at the very core of our judicial system.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yorke v. State · Graves v. State““Many jurisdictions have enunciated the principle that the concept of a ‘fair trial’ must not be confused with that of a perfect trial. An accused has a constitutional right to a ‘fair trial’ but not necessarily to that seldom experienced rarity, a perfect trial. See State v. Smith, 193 S. E. 573, 574 (W. Va. 1937).” State v. Babb, 258 Md. 547, 552 , 267 A. 2d 190 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. State
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.