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← 3 Md. App. 58 - Williams v. State

3 Md. App. 58 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1968

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
June 1977
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Reddish · Watson v. State · Judy v. State · Clay v. State · Tasco 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Flight from justice, and its analogous conduct, have always been deemed indicative of a consciousness of guilt. * * * It is today universally conceded that the fact .of an accused’s flight, escape from custody, .resistance to arrest, concealment, assumption of a false name, and related conduct, are admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt, and thus of guilt itself.” ■”
    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.