6 Md. App. 321 - Grimm v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 state decisions

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * we think there was a ‘substantial basis’ set forth in the application to support the affiant’s conclusion that the guns used in the crime could be found in appellant’s trailer home —it being altogether reasonable to believe that the guns had been carried away from the scene of the crime by the perpetrators and, having thereafter gone to appellant’s trailer, had taken them there.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 28 Md. App. 300 - Mills v. State · 8 Md. App. 169 - Reidy v. State

2. ““* * * At the very most, Dennis [Dennis v. U. S. 384 U. S. 855 ] makes clear that it is only upon a showing of a ‘particularized need’ that an accused might be entitled in a proper case to such disclosure. * * *””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 15 Md. App. 520 - Avery v. State · 32 Md. App. 593 - Chester v. State

3. “that the affiant's sources of information were reliable is too plain to require discussion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 240 Md. App. 629 - Carroll v. State