41 Md. App. 641 - Rowe v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the interrogating officer explained to the [defendant] that the officer had known what a “no good son-of-a-bitch” the victim had been, and “that the only thing that we wanted to do really was to shake the hand of the man that murdered him.... ” With a classic non-verbal act which in itself might have constituted a confession, the [defendant] offered his hand to the officer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 164 Md. App. 170 - Lincoln v. State

2. ““A presumption is a legally required inference. An inference is a factually permissible presumption. Even if we agree that the negative presumptions in this case either disappeared or never arose, there remains an apparent inference from the mode as well as the cause of the death, that-absent the excuse-there was malice in the doing.””

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

3. ““[t]he words used ... are certainly not such as to automatically render that which follows inadmissible. It is barely conceivable that anyone could have interpreted the officer’s comment as anything more than an effort to ‘soft soap’ the appellant....” (Emphasis in original).”

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