5 Md. App. 647 - James v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Even assuming that the statement in the hospital record to the effect that appellant had beaten Tracey on numerous occasions would not have been properly admissible as part of the hospital record had objection been made to it, there was no objection to such statement so that, although hearsay, it may be afforded the same probative force as if competent, the weight thereof being for the trier of fact. Hyman v. State, 4 Md. App. 636 , and cases cited at page 642.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 17 Md. App. 451 - Robinson v. State

2. ““a case involving assault and battery upon an infant child, where it was held that testimony of a witness who was not present when the crime was committed that the accused beat the infant ‘all the time’ was admissible as evidence of other offenses which ‘has a natural tendency to establish, or offers a reasonable presumption or inference as to, a principal' fact at issue or matter in dispute. ’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 42 Md. App. 20 - Worthen v. State