Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen determining whether a proper chain of custody has been established courts examine whether there is a 'reasonable probability that no tampering occurred'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 240 Md. App. 200 - Johnson v. State · Wheeler v. State

2. “'preclude a likelihood that the ... condition [of the piece of evidence] was changed.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wheeler v. State · 235 Md. App. 134 - Boston v. State

3. “The report ... is a two page document indicating, among other things, when the report was created, what items were tested, what procedures were used to develop the results, and the DNA results developed from the testing. Nowhere on either page of the report, however, is there an indication that the results are sworn to or certified or that any person attests to the accuracy of the results. Although [the report was developed] at the request of the Baltimore City Police Department, [the report] is not the result of any formalized police interrogation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 217 Md. App. 388 - Norton v. State