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← 306 Md. 172 - Booth v. State

Booth v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

91
cited by 91 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 2 district · 79 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 91 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Booth v. Maryland (1987), Hunt v. State (1990)

8 federal appellate · 2 district · 79 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

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia · Griffin v. California · Furman v. Georgia · Malloy v. Hogan

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

  1. “Every person ... who shall be convicted of the crime of ... cutting or biting off the nose, ear, or lip ... of malice aforethought, with intention in so doing to mark or disfigure such person, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction [is] subject to imprisonment for not more than 15 years.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Stanley · 118 Md. App. 45 - Stanley v. State
  2. “The permissible scope of closing argument is a matter left to the sound discretion of the trial court. The exercise of that discretion will not constitute reversible error unless clearly abused and prejudicial to the accused.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cagle v. State · Ware v. State
  3. “[i]f any person ... shall assault and beat any person, with intent to maim, disfigure or disable such person____”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hammond v. State · 118 Md. App. 45 - Stanley 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.