67 Md. App. 666 - Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 1993
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gardner v. Florida · Logan v. State · Bartholomey v. State · Johnson v. State · Lodowski 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he very purpose of affording an accused the right to allocute before passing sentence is to provide him or her an opportunity to refute or explain any information presented to the sentencing judge and to present a statement in mitigation of punishment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thanos 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.