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← 431 Md. 42 - Appraicio v. State

Appraicio v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
August 2022
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Victor v. Nebraska · Midgett v. State · Dempsey v. State · Davis v. State · Gunning 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “aid the jury in clearly understanding the case, to provide guidance for the jury's deliberations, and to help the jury arrive at a correct verdict.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]rial courts have a duty to answer, as directly as possible, the questions posed by jurors.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “When the jury's question seeks guidance on how to find the facts, however, the judge's response must be more circumscribed, so as not to invade the province of the jury. We have said that: [i]nstructions as to facts and inferences of fact are normally not required. This is because an instruction regarding particular evidence may have the effect of overemphasizing just one of the many proper inferences that a jury may draw.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.