71 Md. App. 563 - Brice v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2022
10 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Perez. v. Campbell · South Dakota v. Neville · Tate v. Short · MacKey v. Montrym
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.
“[t]his appeal ... betrays a naive failure on [the appellant’s] part to appreciate that the very laws he invokes were designed deliberately to facilitate [the appellant’s] conviction, not to shield him from what is virtually an unrelenting search for truth in drunken driving cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) Blood test.—The blood shall be obtained by a qualified medical person using equipment approved by the toxicologist under the Postmortem Examiner’s Commission acting at the request of a police officer. The chemical test of blood shall be conducted by a qualified person using equipment approved by the toxicologist under the Postmortem Examiner’s Commission in a laboratory approved by that toxicologist. (e) Proof of approved equipment.—For the purpose of establishing that the test was administered with equipment approved by the toxicologist under the Postmortem Examiner’s Commission, a statement signed by the toxicologist certifying that the equipment used in the test has been approved by him shall be prima facie evidence of the approval, and the statement is admissible in evidence without the necessity of the toxicologist personally appearing in court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The Maryland General Assembly has enacted laws to enhance the ability of prosecutors to deal effectively with the problem of dnmk drivers on our state highways.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Weisbrod
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.