Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If Jones can muster some means of proving ownership and satisfy the Baltimore City authorities, he presumably will be able yet to recover the undamaged vehicles.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 Md. App. 233 - Shannon v. State · Goff v. State

2. ““Restitution imposed under [§ 11-603 of the Criminal Procedure Article] “is a criminal sanction, not a civil remedy.” Grey v. Allstate Insurance Company, 363 Md. 445, 451 , 769 A.2d 891, 895 (2001) (emphasis in original). Judge Wilner, writing for this Court in Grey , traced the history of restitution and explained that it serves retributive, deterrent, and rehabilitative objectives, which are the principal functions of criminal punishment. Id. at 459-60 , 769 A.2d at 899-900 . We explained that penal goals are accomplished through restitution to the extent that the defendant is forced to focus on the harm that was caused to the victim. Grey, 363 Md. at 459 , 769 A.2d at 899 . Likewise, restitution is a monetary detriment to the defendant and “satisfies] society’s demand for meaningful justice,” thus serving the punitive objective of the criminal system.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Goff v. State