State v. Chaney’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Aventis Pasteur, Inc. v. Skevofilax (2007), Denicolis v. State (2003)
74 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 Furman v. Georgia · G-K Development Co. v. Broadmoor Place Investments · Marks v. United States · Hopkins v. Reeves · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Dandridge
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Chaney fails to provide us with any evidence sufficient to rebut this presumption. There is nothing in the record to negate the presumption that the sentencing judge knew and properly applied the law. He did not misstate the law. In fact, as both we and the intermediate appellate court agree, he correctly stated that the only sentence available under Art 27, § 413 and Bartholomey [v. State, 267 Md. 175 , 297 A.2d 696 (1972) ] was life imprisonment under these facts. The Wooten decision, clarifying that life sentences were subject to possible subsequent suspension, was decided two years prior to Chaney’s conviction. Nothing has been presented that rebuts the presumption that the sentencing judge was aware of that decision. (Emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pollard v. State“Upon entering a judgment of conviction, the court having jurisdiction, may suspend the imposition or execution of sentence and place the defendant on probation upon such terms and conditions as the courts deem proper. The court may impose a sentence for a specified period and provide that a lesser period be served, in confinement, suspend the remainder of the sentence and grant probation for a period longer than the sentence but not in excess of five years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“THE COURT: As far as the murder conviction is concerned, there’s no choice. She gets life. APPELLANT: No, Your Honor. There is a choice. You can suspend part of it. I brought the Wooten case with me. THE COURT: I understand that, and I completely disagree with ... the Court of Appeals.... So as far as I am concerned, the sentence on the murder charge is life....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.