44 Md. App. 71 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2008
23 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 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State · State v. Evans · Chisley v. State · Neusbaum v. State · Gladden 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an accessory thereto, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner or means of death. It shall be sufficient to use a formula substantially to the following effect: ‘That A.B., on the.....day of.....nineteen hundred and....., at the county aforesaid, feloniously (wilfully and of deliberately premeditated malice aforethought) did kill (and murder) C.D. against the peace, government and dignity of the State/” (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Do the three adjectives "wilful,” "deliberate” and "premeditated” describe three distinct aspects of the mental state we are searching for [i.e., intent to kill] or are they, as a rhetorical device for purposes of emphasis, simply three synonyms for the same mental state? Do the second and third adjectives add anything whatsoever to the first? Can there be "a specific purpose and design to kill” without "a full and conscious knowledge of the purpose to kill”? How does one have purpose without being conscious of that purpose? To wit, can an act be "wilful” and not "deliberate”? By the same token, does the third adjective add anything to the second? How can one be "deliberate” without having had "time enough to be deliberate”? How can one do a thing (even a mental thing) without having had time to do it? Is the adjectival trinity aught but a literary flourish?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““At common law it was essential that the indictment should show the name of the person charged, the name of the person killed, the jurisdiction within which and the time at which the homicide occurred, that it was felonious and such facts and circumstances incident to the crime as were reasonably necessary to identify it, and to enable the court to see whether a crime had been committed as charged.””
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.