33 Md. App. 413 - Vaccaro v. Caple’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2020
21 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Lewis v. United States · Benson v. Borden · 20 Md. App. 201 - Spencer v. State · Brice 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Cases involving death, life imprisonment, or 20 years or more. — In a trial in which the defendant is subject, on any single count, to a sentence of death, life imprisonment, or 20 years or more of imprisonment, except for common law offenses for which no specific penalty is provided by statute, each defendant is permitted 20 peremptory challenges and the state is permitted ten peremptory challenges for each defendant.” Subsection (a) dealt with the graver criminal cases, those”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bundy v. State“The rule is, we are convinced, that when a juror who might otherwise be disqualified for cause is permitted to serve on a jury because of the failure of the aggrieved party to use due diligence in discovering the irregularity, a judgment of that jury will not be disturbed. It seems to us even less justifiable — in such an instance — where the challenge is a peremptory one, which could have been exercised for any arbitrary reason or for no reason at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Doughty“It is the duty of the parties to see that, as impaneled, the box does not contain a juror who has been challenged by striking; should such a juror remain and be sworn, the court is not obliged to discharge him and substitute another juror. A fortiori, the verdict is not vitiated thereby — at least unless the complainant can affirmatively show that the unaccepted juror was prejudiced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Doughty
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