76 Md. App. 71 - Spencer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2009
21 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 Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · United States v. Dion · Zanfardino v. United States · Payne v. Wood
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“insure that the trial is conducted in an orderly way and, in general, make sure that justice is done. He must, however, discharge his duties in a “calmly judicial, dispassionate and impartial” manner. This is imperative in order to protect the defendant’s right to a fair trial inasmuch as the judge’s position as the presiding judge gives him tremendous influence over the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.