35 Md. App. 472 - Reed v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Just when a scientific principle or discovery crosses the line between the experimental and demonstrable ■ stages is difficult to define. Somewhere in this twilight zone the evidential force of the principle must be recognized, and while courts will go a long way in admitting expert testimony deduced from a well-recognized scientific principle or discovery, the thing from which the deduction is made must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.””

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

2. ““Wade refutes the contention that the compelled production of voice exemplars violates the Fifth Amendment. The exemplars of appellant’s voice were to be used solely to measure the physical properties of his voice, and not for the testimonial or communicative content of what was said.””

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