59 Md. App. 694 - Allnutt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2008
21 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 411 (§ 16 of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913) · 31 U.S.C. § 311
Relies on Barrett v. United States · Thaggard v. United States · Veazie Bank v. Fenno · Juilliard v. Greenman · Goldstein v. California
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.
“Instances of dispute of the law of the crime are an endangered species rapidly approaching extinction. Once an appellate court has ruled on the “law of the crime”, the matter then becomes settled law, and thereafter the jury is no longer the judge of the law with respect to that particular matter. Consequently, disputes of the law will decrease in number with each successive appellate ruling. We disagree with the trial court that it was proper for the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Until Stevenson v. State, 289 Md. 167, 179 , 423 A.2d 558 , was decided on December 17, 1980, it was generally believed by bench and bar that a judge's comments as to the law in a criminal case were advisory and not binding on the jury. A jury-twelve lay persons-was to determine not only the evidence but the law of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams“Willfulness may be established through proof, that Mr. Allnutt’s failure ... constituted a voluntary intentional violation of a known legal duty. In other words, the State must prove that Mr. Allnutt must have known clearly and without a doubt, that he had a legal duty which was clearly stated to him____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.