42 Md. App. 365 - Amos v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2022
18 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 Dorsey v. State · Breeding v. State · MacKall v. State · Brown v. Fertitta · 5 H. & J. 317 - State v. Buchanan
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To be admissible ... ‘real evidence’ must be in substantially the same condition that it was in at the time of the crime and must be properly identified____ Although there is a natural inference or presumption of continuance in the same condition, that inference varies in each case with the nature of the subject matter and the time element____ Whether real evidence is in the same condition as at the time of the crime so as to permit admissibility is not entirely a discretionary matter with the court, ... although the circumstances surrounding its safekeeping in that condition in the interim need only be proven as a reasonable probability____ The proof negating the probability of changed conditions between the crime and the trial, is spoken of as proving the chain of custody, and in most instances is established by accounting for custody of the evidence by responsible parties who can negate a possibility of ‘tampering’ and thus preclude a likelihood that the thing’s condition has changed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““To be admissible ... ‘real evidence’ must be in substantially the same condition that it was in at the time of the crime and must be properly identified____ Although there is a natural inference or presumption of continuance in the same condition, that inference varies in each case with the nature of the subject matter and the time element____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.