Muir v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

70 state decisions

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

1. “On behalf of Mr. Bailey, Your Honor, I’d like to make a motion for a judgment of acquittal as to each and every count in the indictment, specifically Count 5. I would like to concur and adopt Mr. Trainor’s argument he made on behalf of his client regarding the carrying a dangerous weapon openly. There’s no evidence that Mr. Bailey had assisted him in using it or anything of that nature. As to the remaining counts, the Counts 1 through U, regarding the sexual offenses and the rape as to [the victimJ, we would submit generally as to Mr. Bailey. Count 6 as it relates to Mr. Brooks, well submit generally.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shand v. State

2. “(a) Generally.—A defendant may move for judgment of acquittal on one or more counts, or on one or more degrees of an offense which by law is divided into degrees, at the close of the evidence offered by the State and, in a jury trial, at the close of all the evidence. The defendant shall state with particularity all reasons why the motion should be granted. No objection to the motion for judgment of acquittal shall be necessary. A defendant does not waive the right to make the motion by introducing evidence during the presentation of the State’s case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shand v. State

3. “the mere fact that [the defendant] would have been deemed a juvenile ... in Maryland does not preclude these offenses from being considered as predicate felonies.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 647 So. 2d 1388 - State v. Youngblood