4 Md. App. 62 - Parker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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36 state decisions

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

1. “[ojrdinarily, where no objection is made to the court’s instructions, a contention that there was error therein is not reviewable on appeal. The reason for the rule requiring objection as a prerequisite to appellate review is a salutary one, being designed to afford the trial judge an opportunity to correct inadvertent omissions or inaccuracies in his instructions, where the alleged error is one that might have been readily corrected if it had been called to the trial judge’s attention.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 117 Md. App. 443 - Fischer v. State · 90 Md. App. 254 - Austin v. State

2. “"There the evidence concerning the appellant’s lack of criminal responsibility, unlike the instant case, was sketchy and the point was whether it was sufficient to permit the issue to go to the jury. We found that it was, the import of our holding being that from the evidence in that case presented the jury could have found that the appellant had a 'permanent’ insanity 'brought on by ingestion of alcohol over a long period of time.’ In the instant case the expert witnesses called by the appellant in his own behalf testified that if he had not ingested alcohol on the day of the offense he would have been responsible for his acts. It appeared clear from the evidence that the appellant was not suffering from a 'permanent’ insanity.” Id. at 182 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 49 Md. App. 522 - Porreca v. State

3. “(e) Objection. — No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless the party objects on the record promptly after the court instructs the jury, stating distinctly the matter to which the party objects and the grounds of the objection. Upon request of any party, the court shall receive objections out of the hearing of the jury. An appellate court, on its own initiative or on the suggestion of a party, may however take cognizance of any plain error in the instructions, material to the rights of the defendant, despite a failure to object.”

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