87 Md. App. 492 - Runkles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1992
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Beck v. Alabama · Schmuck v. United States · Keeble v. United States · Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore · Hook 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person may not sell, barter, or trade or offer to sell, barter, or trade a child for money, for property, either real or personal, or anything else of value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Runkles“to define the crime of baby selling in terms more descriptive of a commercial transaction involving goods, wares, and merchandise....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Runkles“a natural or adoptive parent, or anyone acting on behalf of the parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Runkles
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.