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← 365 Md. 185 - Deibler v. State

Deibler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
2
states following
July 2020
most recently cited

2 district · 32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Brooks v. Lewin Realty III, Inc. (2003), Miles v. State (2001)

2 district · 32 state decisions

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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

Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 47 U.S.C. § 223

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Spies v. United States · Harris v. McRae · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council

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

  1. “" ‘[WjillfuT has received four different constructions from the courts. The first, and most restrictive, is that an act is willful only if it is done with a bad purpose or evil motive — deliberately to violate the law. A second interpretation considers an act to be willful 'if it is done with an intent to commit the act and with a knowledge that the act is in violation of the law.’ That construction does not require that the defendant possess a sinister motivation, but, like the first interpretation, it does require knowledge that the act is unlawful. The third interpretation 'requires only that the act be committed voluntarily and intentionally as opposed to one that is committed through inadvertence, accident, or ordinary negligence.’ Under that approach, 'as long as there is an intent to commit the act, there can be a finding of willfulness even though the actor was consciously attempting to comply with the law and was acting with the good faith belief that the action was lawful.’ What is required is 'an objective intent to commit the act but not necessarily a knowledge that the act will bring about the illegal result.’ Finally, ... some courts have gone so far as to find an act willful even though it was not committed intentionally, but through oversight, inadvertence, or negligence.””
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a video surveillance, though in many respects a greater intrusion on privacy than an audio surveillance, was not prohibited by § 10-402”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “an interception that is not otherwise specifically authorized is done willfully if it is done intentionally-purposely.”
    1 later decision 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.