McCarter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Rothgery v. Gillespie County (2008), Jordan Towing, Inc. v. Hebbville Auto Repair, Inc. (2002)
29 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 United States v. Wade · Gilbert v. California · Coleman v. Alabama · Hamilton v. Alabama · White v. State of Maryland
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" '[T]his Court adheres to "the established principle that a court will not decide a constitutional issue when a case can properly be disposed of on a non-constitutional ground.” ' Baltimore Sun v. Baltimore, 359 Md. 653, 659 , 755 A.2d 1130, 1133-1134 (2000), quoting Telnikoff v. Matusevitch, 347 Md. 561 , 579 n. 15, 702 A.2d 230 , 239 n. 15 (1997). See, e.g., Harryman v. State, 359 Md. 492 , 503 n. 6, 754 A.2d 1018 , 1024 n. 6 (2000); Ashford v. State, 358 Md. 552, 561 , 750 A.2d 35, 40 (2000); Thrower v. Support Enforcement, 358 Md. 146 , 149 n. 2, 747 A.2d 634 , 636 n. 2 (2000), and cases there cited. This principle applies even if the non-constitutional ground was not raised by any party in the case. The ‘appellate policy of avoiding unnecessary decision of constitutional issues gives rise to one of “a very limited number of circumstances [that] have been treated as ‘ “extraordinary” ’ and thus within the exceptions to the requirement that an issue be raised in a certiorari petition, cross-petition, or order by the Court.' ” Professional Nurses v. Dimensions, 346 Md. 132, 138-139 , 695 A.2d 158, 161 (1997), and cases there discussed.” [Alteration in original.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“this Court has held, on equal protection principles, that a person with means to obtain his own lawyer has a right to representation by his [or her] own counsel which is equally as broad as an indigent’s right under the Public Defender Act.” McCarter, 363 Md. at 714 , 770 A.2d at 200 (quoting Flansburg, 345 Md. at 700 n. 4, 694 A.2d at 465 n. 4); accord Wilson v. State, 284 Md. 664, 671 , 399 A.2d 256, 260 (1979) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeWolfe v. Richmond“established principle that a court will not decide a constitutional issue when a case can properly be disposed of on a non-constitutional ground”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.