Sinclair v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 19 Cal. 3d 255 - People v. Superior Court (Greer) (1977), United States v. Heldt (1981)
3 federal appellate · 58 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Maryland State Bar Ass'n v. Agnew · A. S. Abell Co. v. Sweeney · People v. Gerold · Brack v. Wells · Coblentz 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]f a prosecutor . . . would clearly appear ... to have ... a significant personal interest in a civil matter which may impair his obligation in a criminal matter to act impartially ... he is ... disqualified from initiating ... the prosecution of that criminal cause.... [I]f a prosecutor who should have been disqualified is involved ... in the bringing of charges (by way of indictment ...) the charges will be dismissed....” [Sinclair, 278 Md. at 254-55 , 363 A.2d at 475 .]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“" 'An attorney at law who has once been retained and received the confidence of a client, is thereafter disqualified from acting for any other person adversely interested in the same general matter, however slight such adverse interest may be. Nor does it matter that the intention and motive of the attorney are honest. This rule is a rigid one, and designed not alone to prevent the dishonest practitioner from fraudulent conduct, but as well to preclude the honest practitioner from putting himself in a position where he may be required to choose between conflicting duties, or be led to an attempt to reconcile conflicting interests, rather than to enforce to their full extent the rights of the interest which he should alone represent.’ ” [Sinclair, 278 Md. at 253-54 , 363 A.2d at 474-75 (emphasis added).]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gatewood v. State · Young v. State“"We ... conclude that the defendant need not prove actual prejudice because, on the basis of public policy, it will be presumed to exist as a matter of law.”Sinclair, 278 Md. at 255 n.8, 363 A.2d 475 n.8 (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.