Parker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to forestall endless collateral attacks on judgments through civil actions against the judges themselves,”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nero v. Mosby · (2008)

2. “The circuit court is a court of original general jurisdiction. Code (1973, 1989 Repl. VoL, 1994 Cum. Supp.), § 1-501 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article. Accordingly, the circuit court may exercise all of the inherent powers of a common law superior court, except to the extent that its jurisdiction has been limited by law or transferred exclusively to another tribunal. Ibid. See County Exec., Prince Geo’s Co. v. Doe, 300 Md. 445, 453-454 , 479 A.2d 352, 356-357 (1984); Dorsey v. State, 295 Md. 217, 227 , 454 A.2d 353, 358 (1983); First Federated Com. Tr. v. Comm’r, 272 Md. 329, 334-335 , 322 A.2d 539, 543 (1974).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brown v. State

3. ““[I]t is a general principle of the highest importance to the proper administration of justice that a judicial officer, in exercising the authority vested in him, shall be free to act upon his own convictions, without apprehension of personal consequence to himself. Liability to answer to every one who might feel himself aggrieved by the action of the judge, would be inconsistent with the possession of this freedom, and would destroy that independence without which no judiciary can be either respectable or useful.” 4”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gill v. Ripley