48 Md. App. 205 - Kirby v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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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. “§ 553. Sodomy generally. Every person convicted of the crime of sodomy shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than ten years. § 554. Unnatural or perverted sexual practices. Every person who is convicted of taking into his or her mouth the sexual organ of any other person or animal, or who shall be convicted of placing his or her sexual organ in the mouth of any other person or animal, or who shall be convicted of committing any other unnatural or perverted sexual practice with any other person or animal, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned in jail or in the house of correction or in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding ten years, or shall be both fined and imprisoned within the limits above prescribed in the discretion of the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. LaGrange v. Hinton

2. “such [a] crime as involve[s] moral turpitude, or such as render[s] the offender incompetent as a witness in court, upon a theory that a witness would not commit so heinous a crime unless he [is] so depraved as to be unworthy of credit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 68 Md. App. 282 - Matthews v. State