5 Md. App. 230 - Harding v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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18 federal appellate · 2 district · 125 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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The admissibility of Mildred Coley's testimony concerning the assault with intent to rape case causes no difficulty. On the witness stand she recited the facts and stated that she was doing so from her own recollection. The fact that she had told different stories or had achieved her present knowledge after being hypnotized concerns the question of the weight of the evidence which the trier of facts, in this case the jury, must decide. Borman v. State, 1 Md. App. 276 , 229 A.2d 440 , Carroll v. State, 3 Md. App. 50 , 237 A.2d 535 , Thompson v. State, 4 Md. App. 31 , 240 A.2d 780 .”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 31 Cal. 3d 18 - People v. Shirley · 45 Md. App. 569 - State v. Temoney

2. “Hypnosis is really — takes no great feat. Essentially anyone can do it, despite what appears to be a very mysterious kind of process. All that is involved in inducing a person into hypnosis is a very boring voice and monotonous repetition of words. Any of us can do it. The other thing that is necessary is a certain amount of willingness on the part of the individual [being hypnotized].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zani v. State

3. “her recall afterwards was essentially the same,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 31 Cal. 3d 18 - People v. Shirley