Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 1991
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pulley v. State · Kawamura v. State · Thompson v. State · State v. Huebner · State Ex Rel. Wilson v. Stafford
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fundamental jurisdiction of the District Court to hear the criminal charges pending against the appellant would not have been affected by the court’s failure to comply with Md. District Rule 751. Such error, if in fact it did occur, was one of procedure in the court’s exercise of its jurisdiction which could have been corrected on direct appeal____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. State · Powell v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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