Sizer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the trial court's findings of fact, the evidence, and the inferences that may be drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the party who prevails on the issue that the defendant raises in the motion to suppress.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 238 Md. App. 87 - Thornton v. State

2. “[W]e review the hearing judge's legal conclusions de novo , making our own independent constitutional evaluation as to whether the officer's encounter with the defendant was lawful.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 Md. App. 456 - Carter v. State

3. “testifying officers 'to be truthful and credible' and that they had 'testified ... without embellishment[ ]' "). The State insists that there is "no reason in the record”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 238 Md. App. 87 - Thornton v. State