Henderson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2008
8 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 Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · United States v. Marzano · Canty v. Board of Education · 33 Md. App. 115 - Bartram v. State · Eley 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think Judge Levin properly allowed the State to adduce testimony as to why the murder weapon was not located and presented at trial. Although appellant disavows any intent “to show that Detective O’Brien had not aggressively investigated the case,” Eley would have allowed such an argument had appellant advanced it to the jury. Even considering appellant’s assurance that there was no intention “in closing argument to say whether or not the police did anything wrong in their investigation in the matter,” the inference to be drawn from Detective O’Brien’s testimony was clear____ Based on what was then before him, and cognizant of Eley , he [the trial judge] took the appropriate measure to assure that the State was not treated unfairly.”
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.