63 Md. App. 324 - Richardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2018
2 district · 8 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 Donovan v. Dewey · United States v. Birdsall · Sugarman v. State · Montgomery v. State · Lansdowne 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.
“In concluding that the appellant was acting within his “official duties”... we “have given the statutory definition of bribery a construction broad enough to cover cases,” such as this one, “where a public officer has accepted a bribe to act corruptly in a matter to which he bears some official relation, though the act itself may be technically beyond his official powers or duties.” Thus, while the actual decision to nol. pros, a traffic violation is one which rests with the State’s Attorney of Prince George’s County, the right of a police officer in that County to recommend the nol. pros, of traffic cases in which he brought the original charges must be considered a responsibility implicitly authorized by custom and circumstance, amounting to an official practice and, consequently, one of his “official duties” within the language of Article 27, Section 23 of the Code. 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The reason for making it an offense to bribe a public officer is because of its tendency to pervert justice.... An officer’s conduct need not be specifically prescribed by statute in order to constitute official action, and it is sufficient that the duty exists by reason of natural implication from the powers specifically granted by statute, or by reason of the lawful custom or regulation of a department of government.... Once the gist of the crime is apparent, a strict and technical interpretation of an officer’s duty becomes as senseless to logic as it is legally deplored by the weight of authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State“bear some relation to his official duties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.