8 Md. App. 119 - Womble v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably State v. Scott (1992), State v. Washington (1977)
26 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Chapman v. State of California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Berger v. State · Wentz v. State · Cothron 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Faced with the fact that the jury had before it evidence that he had previously committed perverted sex acts, it was essential to the applicant’s defense that he attempt to dispel the impact of that evidence on the jury. This he could do by showing that he had been tried and acquitted of those offenses. His acquittal was relevant and material and he was entitled to establish it by proper evidence. It was not only error to exclude such evidence, but the error was material to his right to a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.