38 Md. App. 100 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The clear weight of authority is that conviction of a necessarily included lesser offense is permissible under a document charging a greater offense."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 87 Md. App. 492 - Runkles v. State · Beckwith v. State

2. “When, therefore, a person is indicted for murder, in the technical language of the common law, he is charged with a crime, which in its proper sense, includes all circumstances of aggravation, and as all minor degrees are included in the major, he is liable to be convicted of the inferior, as well as of the higher grades of that offense, and vice versa.”

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

3. “Any person who breaks and enters the dwelling house of another is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not more than three (3) years or a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or both.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 73 Md. App. 135 - Bane v. State