52 Md. App. 448 - Simms v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2009
2 district · 10 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 State v. Sneeden · First National Bank v. Department of Health & Mental Hygiene · Hazel v. State · Bunch v. State · Robert 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is clear that the victim need not go into sordid detail to effectively establish that penetration occurred during the course of a sexual assault. Where the key to the prosecutor’s case rests with the victim’s testimony, the courts are normally satisfied with descriptions which, in light of all the surrounding facts, provide a reasonable basis from which to infer that penetration has occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although admitting a `failure to note proper objection,' appellant last urges that we find plain error in the trial court's jury instruction that its (the court's) charge was `advisory only.' As we refused to take cognizance of a similar issue in Guardino ... we decline to do so here....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Adams
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.