Lee v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

59 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘[W]e view the evidence and inferences that may be reasonably drawn therefrom in a light most favorable to the prevailing party on the motion,’ ” here, the State. Owens v. State, 399 Md. 388, 403 , 924 A.2d 1072, 1080 (2007) (quoting State v. Rucker, 374 Md. 199, 207 , 821 A.2d 439, 444 (2003)), cert. denied, 552 U.S. 1144 , 128 S.Ct. 1064 , 169 L.Ed.2d 813 (2008). “We defer to the motions court’s factual findings and uphold them unless they are shown to be clearly erroneous.” State v. Luckett, 413 Md. 360 , 375 n. 3, 993 A.2d 25 , 33 n. 3 (2010). “We, however, make our own independent constitutional appraisal, by reviewing the relevant law and applying it to the facts and circumstances of this case.” Id., 993 A.2d at 33 n. 3 (quotation marks and citation omitted).”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moore v. State · Lovelace v. State

2. “Since Miranda was decided, courts have applied the principles of that case and its progeny to hold that, after proper warnings and a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver, the interrogator may not say or do something during the ensuing interrogation that subverts those warnings and thereby vitiates the suspect’s earlier waiver by rendering it unknowing, involuntary, or both.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lejeezan Toudle v. United States · Leger v. Commonwealth

3. “First, the relinquishment of the right must have been voluntary in the sense that it was the product of a free and deliberate choice rather than intimidation, coercion, or deception. Second, the waiver must have been made with a full awareness of both the nature of the right being abandoned and the consequences of the decision to abandon it.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lovelace v. State · 235 Md. App. 175 - Ford v. State