6 Md. App. 348 - Hurley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Wilson v. State (1971), Attorney Grievance Commission v. McDonald (2014)
45 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 Nelson v. Seiler · Mayson v. State · Brooks v. Daley · Duffy v. State · Bulluck 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The essential purpose of the Rule is to prevent one prospective witness from being taught by hearing another’s testimony; its application avoids an artificial harmony of testimony that prevents the trier of fact from truly weighing all the testimony; it may also avoid the outright manufacture of testimony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The time for sequestration begins with the delivery of testimony upon the stand and ends with the close of testimony. “It is therefore not appropriate during the reading of the pleadings or the opening address of counsel; any danger of improper suggestions at such times is to be dealt with in other ways.” (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court may upon its own motion and shall, upon the request of a party, order that the witnesses be excluded from the courtroom until called upon to testify. * * *.””
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.