5 Md. App. 630 - Jefferies v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Bartholomey v. State (1971), 15 Md. App. 520 - Avery v. State (1972)
30 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 Madison v. State · 3 Md. App. 11 - Boone v. State · 2 Md. App. 645 - Thomas v. State · 5 Md. App. 211 - Burkett v. State · 4 Md. App. 607 - Grimes 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * In Madison v. State, 200 Md. 1 , 87 A. 2d 593 the Court of Appeals specifically affirmed the right of the trial judge to intervene into the ■questioning of witnesses. Although the number of questions asked by the trial judge in this particular case would exceed those normally asked by a trial judge this fact alone does not mean that Jefferies’ trial was in any way unfair; * * * »”
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.