8 Md. App. 635 - Nutter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 52 state decisions

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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Although an eyewitness to a crime is * * * a ‘material’ witness * * * if he is an informer, simply observing an illegal transaction but not participating in it, the fact that he observes the transaction does not necessarily make his possible testimony so important as to compel disclosure of his identity [under] the nondisclosure privilege.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 78 Md. App. 395 - DeLuca v. State · Brooks v. State

2. ““We note that we believe that evidence of the prior days occurrences and activities was properly admissible on the issue of guilt or innocence____ We think such evidence fell within the exception to the general rule that evidence of the commission of other independent crimes by the defendant is inadmissible to show either guilt or that the defendant would be likely to commit the crime with which he is charged. Here such evidence was relevant as tending directly to prove the crime charged, and that crime and the occurrences and activities of the prior days were sufficiently linked together in point of time and circumstances. ‘If proof of another crime explains or accounts for the crime for which the accused is on trial, it is relevant and competent.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 63 Md. App. 239 - Anaweck v. State

3. “is well established, and its soundness cannot be questioned.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Milligan