Boyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 191 Md. App. 319 - Wilder v. State (2010), Odum v. State (2010)
32 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 Ross v. State · Merzbacher v. State · State v. Faulkner · Simmons v. State · Von Lusch 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judge Cathell for the Court in Wynn v. State, 351 Md. 307 , 718 A.2d 588 (1998), extensively discussed the general admissibility of other crimes or bad acts evidence, and specifically dealt with the “absence of mistake” exception. After reviewing numerous cases and other authorities, Judge Cat-hell explained one of the prerequisites for the exception (Wynn, 351 Md. at 330-331 , 718 A.2d at 599-600 , emphasis in original): “Our examination of the commentators and the case law both in Maryland and in other jurisdictions that we have discussed reveals a general prerequisite to the application of the absence of mistake exception. In order for the exception to apply, the defendant generally must make some assertion or put on a defense that he or she committed the act for which he or she is on trial, but did so by mistake. In those cases noted above in which the exception was found not to apply, the defendant made no assertion or put forward no defense that he or she mistakenly committed the act for which he or she was on trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) Other crimes, wrongs, or acts. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts including delinquent acts as defined by Code, Courts Article, § 3-8A-01 is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. Such evidence, however, may be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, common scheme or plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] contemporaneous general objection to the admission of evidence ordinarily preserves for appellate review all grounds which may exist for the inadmissibility of the evidence.” (Quoting Boyd v. State, 399 Md. 457, 476 , 924 A.2d 1112 (2007)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.