State v. Purcell’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2012
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 Morris v. Prince George's County · Murray International Freight Corp. v. Graham · Dillsworth v. State · Spitzinger v. State · State v. Kennedy
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.
“"(c) In a criminal case, the State may appeal as provided in this subsection. “(2) The State may appeal from a final judgment if the State alleges that the trial judge: "(i) Failed to impose the sentence specifically mandated by the Code; or "(ii) Imposed or modified a sentence in violation of the Maryland Rules.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Glass
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.