29 Md. App. 622 - Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2006
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 Hardesty v. Dunphy · Beard v. State · 8 Md. App. 355 - Simmons v. State · 24 Md. App. 309 - Wright v. State · Maguire 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"which shall warn the defendant that the State has evidence that he has formerly been convicted of the same offense, including the date and court in which he was previously convicted, that it intends to prosecute the accused for the current offense as a second or subsequent offender, the maximum punishment which may be imposed upon the defendant if he is convicted of the current offense and found to be a second, or subsequent offender.. . .” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The record discloses only the bare assertion from the prosecutor that appellant had previously been convicted of a handgun violation. That statement by the prosecutor does not satisfy the State’s burden of proving that appellant was previously convicted of a qualifying crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be sentenced... for a term of not less than 1 year nor more than 10 years, and it is mandatory upon the court to impose no less than the minimum sentence of 1 year. ...” This”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.