29 Md. App. 609 - Laurie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2022
22 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 Kelly v. State · Skinker v. State · Hite v. State · Costello v. State · Commissioner of Motor Vehicles v. Lee
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Upon entering a judgment- of conviction, the court having jurisdiction, may suspend the imposition or execution of sentence and place the defendant on probation upon such terms and conditions as the courts deem proper. The court may impose a sentence for a specified period and provide that a lesser period be served in confinement, suspend the remainder of the sentence and grant probation for a period longer than the sentence but not in excess of five years.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think it is implicit in the language of § 641A that maximum terms to be served as a probationer must be as definitely described as are terms of imprisonment upon sentencing. Although probationary restrictions may be lessened or discontinued before the. maximum is served, a defendant should not be left hanging as to the outside limits of his punishment,____” (Citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller 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.