6 Md. App. 677 - Gray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Cox v. State (1988), State v. Torres (1988)
52 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 · Rosenberg v. United States · Wood v. State · Clarke v. State · 1 Md. App. 406 - Culver 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, jurisdiction once acquired is not defeated by subsequent events even though they are of such a character as would have prevented jurisdiction from attaching in the first instance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n order to justify or excuse the killing of another on the ground of self defense, it is necessary to establish that the defendant believed at the time he was, or a person close to him or some close relative, was in immediate danger of losing his or her life, or suffering serious bodily harm and believed it necessary in the protection of that life of another to save that person....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““once a court lawfully acquires jurisdiction over the person and the subject matter of the litigation, subsequent events will not ordinarily deprive the court of its jurisdiction, although had they existed at the time, they may have initially precluded the court’s jurisdiction.” 6 Md. App. at 682 .”
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.