51 Md. App. 347 - Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2012
23 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 Jackson v. Denno · Guzman v. United States · Hillard v. State · Curtis v. State · Von Lusch 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]either the fact that a polygraph test was administered nor the results of the test should be admitted into evidence. To hold differently would encourage the indulgence by a jury in rank speculation to the detriment of cither the State or the defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leggett v. State · Murphy v. State
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.