27 Md. App. 579 - Dillon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1996
16 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 · 7 Md. App. 167 - Parker v. State · 23 Md. App. 151 - White v. State · 20 Md. App. 450 - Robinson v. State · Raimondi 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(a) Declaration of policy. — The General Assembly of Maryland hereby finds and declares that: (i) There has, in recent years, been an alarming increase in the number of violent crimes perpetrated in Maryland, and a high percentage of those crimes involve the use of handguns; (ii) The result has been a substantial increase in the number of persons killed or injured which is traceable, in large part, to the carrying of handguns on the streets and public ways by persons inclined to use them in criminal activity; (iii) The laws currently in force have not been effective in curbing the more frequent use of handguns in perpetrating crime; and (iv) Further regulations on the wearing, carrying, and transporting of handguns are necessary to preserve the peace and tranquility of the State and to protect the rights and liberties of its citizens.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Inclusion of a pertinent statute within the court’s advisory instruction is proper. Parker v. State, 7 Md.App. 167 , 254 A.2d 381 , cert. den. 91 S. Ct. 1670 , 29 L.Ed.2d 150 . We have been referred to no Maryland case — and we have found none — in which a declaration of legislative policy incorporated within a penal statute was read to the jury. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, however, twice has ruled upon the question. In Commonwealth v. Sansone, [ 252 Mass. 71 ], 147 N.E. 574 (1925) it was said at 575: 'It is not error for the trial court in the course of a charge to state the legislative purpose in enacting the statute upon which the indictment is based.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(d) Unlawful use of handgun in commission of crime. — Any person who shall use a handgun in the commission of any felony or any crime of violence as defined in § 441 of this article, shall be guilty of a separate misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall, in addition to any other sentence imposed by virtue of commission of said felony or misdemeanor, be sentenced to the Maryland Division of Correction for a term of not less than five nor more than fifteen years, and it is mandatory upon the court to impose no less than the minimum sentence of five years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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