31 Md. App. 652 - McDowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2003
19 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 Chapman v. State of California · Pointer v. Texas · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Harrington v. California · Dutton v. Evans
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From the viewpoint of the confrontation clause, a witness under oath, subject to cross-examination, and whose demeanor can be observed by the trier of fact, is a reliable informant not only as to what he has seen but also as to what he has heard.” Dutton v. Evans, 400 U.S. 74, 88 , 91 S.Ct. 210, 219 , 27 L.Ed.2d 213 (1970); see also McDowell v. State, 31 Md.App. 652 , 358 A.2d 624 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Defendant made no statements or confessions, oral or written, which are known to the State at the present time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jennings 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.