51 Md. App. 16 - Funkhouser v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Palmer Ford, Inc. v. Wood (1984), 66 Md. App. 603 - Smith v. State (1986)
3 federal appellate · 45 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 Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman · American Trading Transportation Co. v. Escobar · Wilhelm v. State · Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Decker · New York Mercantile Exchange v. Leist
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The grant or denial of a] motion in limine is not a ruling on evidence. It adds a procedural half step to the offer of evidence. It serves the useful purpose of raising and pointing out before trial, certain evidentiary rulings that the court may be called upon to make.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“made no proffer of the evidence he sought to introduce except [for a] vague comment.... More important, he made no attempt whatsoever to introduce the evidence at the trial by way of proffer out of the hearing of the jury, or otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no exception to the ... rule, which requires the recording of an objection in the trial below, where the question of admissibility of evidence has previously been raised in a pre-trial motion in limine.”
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.