65 Md. App. 606 - Waddell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably In Re Tariq A-R-Y (1997), Harris v. State (1991)
26 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Matlock · Addington v. Texas · Tichnell 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ejvidence of other crimes is admissible when the evidence is substantially relevant for some other purpose than to show that the accused committed the crime on trial because of his criminal character.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. State · Harris v. State“'the general rule ... that the granting or refusing of a request to allow the jury to view the premises where a crime is alleged to have been committed is within the discretion of the trial court.’ ” Waddell v. State, 65 Md.App. 606, 611 , 501 A.2d 865 (1985) (quoting Corens v. State, 185 Md. 561, 573 , 45 A.2d 340 (1946)); see also 2 McCormick on Evidence § 219 (7th ed. 2013) (”
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.