31 Md. App. 138 - Smoot v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2013
14 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 Brasfield v. United States · Jenkins v. United States · Harris v. United States · United States v. Diggs · Kelly 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he jury twice volunteered the details of their division. After the first disclosure, they should have been admonished by the court, and counselled [sic] against any repetition. In the absence of such a cautionary instruction, the second disclosure of their split ... was even more explicit and more improper. In response to the plaintive inquiry on the “bottom line” of their note, “What do we do now?”, the trial court, under the circumstances then existing in this case, should have granted the [defendant’s] motion for a mistrial and sent them home. To require, as he did, another hour of deliberation and then sua sponte to administer the Allen-type charge ... was an abuse of discretion....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Browne v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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