DeWolfe v. Richmond’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The District Court Commissioner determines at the initial appearance, pursuant to Maryland Rule 4-216, whether a plaintiff is eligible for pretrial release. If a defendant was arrested without a warrant, the Commissioner determines whether there was probable cause for each charge and for the arrest. If there was no probable cause, the defendant is released with no conditions of release.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 Md. App. 349 - Holly v. State · 237 Md. App. 389 - Smallwood v. State

2. “[t]hat no man ought to be taken or imprisoned or disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or, in any manner, destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or by the Law of the land.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 241 Md. App. 349 - Holly v. State · 237 Md. App. 389 - Smallwood v. State

3. “A defendant's actual incarceration in a jail, as a result of a proceeding at which he was unrepresented by counsel and did not knowingly and intelligently waive the right to counsel, is fundamentally unfair.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 Md. App. 349 - Holly v. State · 237 Md. App. 389 - Smallwood v. State