Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We review the Circuit Court’s ruling on the motion to suppress and “consider only the facts and information contained in the record of the suppression hearing.” Longshore v. State, 399 Md. 486, 498 , 924 A.2d 1129, 1135 (2007). “The factual findings of the suppression court and its conclusions regarding the credibility of testimony are accepted unless clearly erroneous.” Prioleau v. State, 411 Md. 629, 638 , 984 A.2d 851, 856 (2009) (quoting Rush v. State, 403 Md. 68, 82-83 , 939 A.2d 689, 697 (2008)). The foregoing notwithstanding, we “undertake our own independent constitutional appraisal of the record by reviewing the law and applying it to the facts of the present case.” Id. (internal citations omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cox v. State