Bruce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Merzbacher v. State (1997), Conyers v. State (1999)
2 district · 91 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Mills v. Maryland
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Maryland Rules provide, however, that “[a]n objection to the admission of evidence shall be made at the time the evidence is offered or as soon thereafter as the grounds for objection become apparent. Otherwise, the objection is waived.... ” Md.Rule 4-323(a). Therefore, “[i]f opposing counsel’s question is formed improperly or calls for an inadmissible answer, counsel must object immediately. Counsel cannot wait to see whether the answer is favorable before deciding whether to object.” 5 L. McLain, Maryland Evidence § 103.3, at 17 (1987); Moxley v. State, 205 Md. 507, 515 , 109 A.2d 370, 373 (1954). (emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] party must clearly proffer his [or her] theory to the trial court in order to challenge on appeal the sustaining of objections to those questions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Maryland Rule 4-328(a) requires that [a]n objection to the admission of evidence shall be made at the time the evidence is offered or as soon thereafter as the grounds for objection become apparent. Otherwise, the objection is waived. The grounds for the objection need not be stated unless the court, at the request of a party or on its own initiative, so directs. The court shall rule upon the objection promptly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.