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← 280 Md. 291 - Raithel v. State

Raithel v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

87
cited by 87 later decisions
3
states following
June 2020
most recently cited

87 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia (1992), Reed v. State (1978)

87 state decisions

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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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4244

Relies on Dusky v. United States · Drope v. Missouri · United States v. Mississippi · I. W. Berman Properties v. Porter Bros. · Radman v. Harold

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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"... admissibility of expert testimony is a matter largely within the discretion of the trial court, and its action in admitting or excluding such testimony will seldom constitute a ground for reversal.””
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 66 Md. App. 100 - White v. State · Gutierrez v. State
  2. “is unable to understand the nature of the object of the proceeding against him or to assist in his defense.” Md. Ann. Code art. 59, § 23 (1979 Repl. Vol., 1980 Cum. Supp.). The Court of Appeals has held that this requires”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Morrow v. State · 47 Md. App. 296 - Morrow v. State
  3. “[c]ompetency requires, at a minimum, that the defendant be sufficiently coherent to provide his counsel with information necessary or relevant to constructing a defense.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Shields · Morrow 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.