38 Md. App. 288 - Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2015
13 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 McMann v. Richardson · Brewer v. Williams · Dorsey v. State · Ross v. State · Newton v. State
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.
““ ‘The appellant’s final contention is that since the conviction for murder in the first degree might have rested upon Article 27, § 410, providing, inter alia, that all murder committed in the perpetration of a kidnapping shall be murder in the first degree, the underlying felony of kidnapping must, in three of the indictments at least, merge into the ensuing felony-murders. The appellant relies upon Newton v. State, 280 Md. 260 , 373 A. 2d 262 . Newton , of course, does not stand for such a proposition at all. It rather holds that if the only credible evidence before a fact finder which could justify finding that the highest degree of blameworthiness existed in a homicide case was the fact that one of the felonies spelled out in §§ 408-409 or 410 was being perpetrated, or attempted, then and only then would the undergirding felony, or its attempt, merge of necessity into the conviction for homicide. If, on the other hand, there was legally sufficient independent evidence of wilfulness, deliberation and premeditation under Article 27, § 407, then the merger would not be compelled.’ ” 5”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Frye
How this case has been treated — in progress
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