6 Md. App. 370 - Mercer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1986
9 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 Glisson v. United States · 5 Md. App. 623 - Sweeting v. State · State v. Sedacca · 5 Md. App. 211 - Burkett v. State · 5 Md. App. 367 - Brown 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Since the officers had no prior knowledge of the crime the probable cause, if it existed, has to be found in what came to the officers’ senses at the time of the arrest. And this information must, of course, be much stronger than if the prior knowledge had existed. * * *””
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.