Key-El v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Grier v. State (1998), Gohari v. Darvish (2001)
28 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Griffin v. California · Doyle v. Ohio · Colorado v. Connelly · Michigan v. Tucker
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party may make a “tacit admission,” adopting, by his or her silence, another person’s statement. In order for the other’s statement to be considered the party’s tacit admission, the following prerequisites must be satisfied: (1) the party heard and understood the other person’s statement; (2) at the time, the party had an opportunity to respond; (3) under the circumstances, a reasonable person in the party’s position, who disagreed with the statement, would have voiced that disagreement. The party must have had firsthand knowledge of the matter addressed in the statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n admission may be implied through the affirmative conduct or, in the case of “tacit admissions,” the silence or inaction of a party. A tacit admission occurs when one remains silent in the face of accusations that, if untrue, would naturally rouse the accused to speak in his or her defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has long recognized so called 'tacit admissions’ by a party-opponent in both civil and criminal actions as an exception to the hearsay rule under common law.... This common law was codified as Maryland Rule 5-803(a)(2) which took effect on”
2 later decisions 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.