38 Md. App. 682 - Pulley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Pulley v. State (1980), Smith v. State (1985)
2 district · 28 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Ohio v. Kentucky · Acosta v. United States · Erlenbaugh v. United States · Ross 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find no merit in the State's contention in the instant case that the requested alibi instruction was 'fairly covered' by the trial court's other instructions with respect to the presumption of innocence and the burden of proving the [defendant] guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a likelihood that the jury will become confused about the burden of persuasion [,]....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The federal courts have been sensitive of the rationale for requiring an instruction on alibi. The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects an accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime charged. Since alibi is generally held not to be an affirmative defense, an alibi instruction removes the possibility that the jury will place the burden of proof upon the defendant with respect to the alibi.”
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.