64 Md. App. 279 - Bates v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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28 state decisions

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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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Here, the hearing to determine the facts underlying [the defendant’s] motion claiming denial of right to the effective assistance of counsel was collateral to the criminal trial itself. Unlike the issue relating to the voluntariness of the confession in Gill, evidence given in support of, or in opposition to, [the defendant’s] motion to dismiss is not presented again in the course of the trial for consideration with all of the evidence bearing on guilt or innocence. [The defendant’s] non-jury case presents the type of an issue which meets the criteria suggested in Gill for a limited remand in a criminal case....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 140 Md. App. 495 - Southern v. State

2. ““Involved is not the expectation of the passenger vis-a-vis the driver but vis-a-vis the rest of the world_ The taxicab driver in this case did not invite the police into the taxicab. We are not arbi trating the rights, powers, authority, or obligations of the taxicab driver or the passenger vis-a-vis each other. Although the Fourth Amendment expectations of the passenger might (we do not decide) have been defeasible at the hands of the taxicab driver, they were not compromised vis-a-vis the police.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chapa v. State