52 Md. App. 664 - Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2012
12 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 Sutton v. State · 17 Md. App. 451 - Robinson v. State · 48 Md. App. 522 - DeBettencourt v. State · 39 Md. App. 484 - Humphrey v. State · 52 Md. App. 150 - Yanes 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.
““... [T]he ‘plea of not guilty on an agreed statement of facts,’ as employed by trial counsel for the appellant, cannot, under the particular circumstances, be construed as anything short of a plea of guilty, irrespective of what counsel chose to call it. A mutt called ‘Duke’ is not ipso facto noble. One must look to performance, and the performance in the case is that the appellant’s not guilty on an agreed statement of facts was a judicial confession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the instant case we consider that the appellant, having specifically preserved "rights” incident to a not guilty plea, may not under the facts of this case claim "rights” incident to the entry to a plea of guilty. Therefore, his contention is not ground for setting aside his convictions at the December 14, 1981 trial.”
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.