41 Md. App. 677 - Butler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2000
10 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 Boykin v. Alabama · 11 Md. App. 508 - Folk v. State · Garrison v. State · 40 Md. App. 399 - Biddle v. State · 9 Md. App. 639 - Anderson 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is evident here, as it was in Biddle , that the court made no effort whatever to comply with section d of Rule 735. It obviously made no inquiry of appellant on the record. Neither is there any indication in the record that the court knew what had transpired in the District Court. Accordingly, there was no basis upon which it could have reasonably concluded .that appellant had full knowledge of his right to a jury trial and that he was knowingly and voluntarily waiving that right.” Id. at 683.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellant’s first argument is that, as the lactose and quinine were found in the satchel carried by Davis, there was no evidence to show that they were ever in his possession. Possession of contraband to be criminal, however, need not be exclusive or actual. There may be joint possession and constructive possession, either of which will suffice to sustain a conviction. The proximity of the two men— leaving the plane, conversing in the terminal, and attempting to enter the same cab — coupled with the presence of prescription drugs with appellant’s name on them in the satchel, more than sufficed to establish a joint or constructive possession of the contraband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. State““If the defendant elects to be tried by the court, the trial of the case on its merits before the court may not proceed until the court determines, after inquiry of the defendant on the record, that the defendant has made his election for a court trial with full knowledge of his right to a jury trial and that he has knowingly and voluntarily waived the right. If the court determines otherwise, it shall give the defendant another election pursuant to this Rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Datcher v. State
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.