Tucker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “as requiring the trial court to give a requested instruction when: (1) the requested instruction is a correct statement of the law; (2) the requested instruction is applicable under the facts of the case; and (3) the content of the requested instruction was not fairly covered elsewhere in the jury instruction actually given.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 192 Md. App. 577 - COLEMAN-FULLER v. State · 188 Md. App. 57 - Lapin v. State

2. “'Once it has been determined that error was committed, reversal is required unless the error did not influence the verdict; the error is harmless only if it did not play any role in the jury’s verdict. The reviewing court must exclude that possibility beyond a reasonable doubt.' ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Robinson v. State · Alston v. State

3. “[t]here is no particular reason to think that cross-racial identification applies to eyewitnesses in actual criminal cases,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 240 Md. App. 156 - Kazadi v. State