48 Md. App. 219 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2012
15 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 Santobello v. New York · State v. Brockman · Miller v. State · Sinclair v. State · 25 Md. App. 628 - Sturgis 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The crystalline inference that permeates the record in this case is that the Assistant State’s Attorney was piqued because of the jury’s verdict, and he seized upon the stet as a way of balancing the scales. In fact, he told Judge Pines that if the jury had convicted the appellee, the instant case would have been closed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘[w]e think that once the State has made a bargain, it is bound to adhere to the agreement so long as the accused performs his part.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. E. SIFRIT v. State
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.