8 Md. App. 492 - Shotkosky v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
44
cited by 44 later decisions
1
states following
May 1986
most recently cited
44 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Irvin v. Dowd · Lutwak v. United States · Giles v. State of Maryland · Chisley v. State · Bruce 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary for this Court to decide that the instructions as given were the clearest of all possible instructions. It is sufficient that the instructions taken as a whole correctly stated the law.””
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.