6 Md. App. 466 - Makins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2010
10 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 5 Md. App. 450 - Williams v. State · 2 Md. App. 80 - Boone v. State · Corbin v. State · 5 Md. App. 571 - Boswell v. State · 4 Md. App. 590 - Reagan 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The incident as drawn clearly charged the appellant with the crime of daytime housebreaking with intent to steal the personal goods of another. Each of the elements of that crime was alleged, without regard to the particular apartment number specified, and none of the essential elements of the offense were changed by the amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. State“As to what constitutes substance and what is merely formal in an indictment, it may be said that all facts which must be proved to make the act complained of a crime are matters of substance, and that all else including the order of arrangement and precise words, unless they alone will convey the proper meaning is formal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. State“none of the essential elements of the offense were changed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. State
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.