88 Md. App. 475 - Garrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2015
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wilhelm v. State · Tichnell v. State · State v. Lyles · Davis 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even had there been no instruction concerning the availability of this inference, we think it likely that among the first questions posed in the deliberation of this case would have been, “Why didn’t the defendant produce Alvin Johnson?” Only if, as a matter of law, the unfavorable inference could not have been drawn by the jurors would the trial judge have been authorized to prohibit the prosecutor from posing that same question in argument. And, only if the circumstances were such that the trial judge should have prohibited the argument would we be likely to reverse because the instruction was given. If the argument fairly may be made, then it stands to reason that a sufficient foundation of facts exists upon which the inference[ ] may be drawn.[ ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Appellant, when afforded an opportunity to present argument on his motions for judgment of acquittal at the close of the State’s case-in-chief and again at the close of all of the evidence, chose to “submit” without articulating the particularized reasons which would justify acquittal. Accordingly, he has waived any complaint with respect to the sufficiency of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shand v. State“[A] motion which merely asserts that evidence is insufficient to support a conviction without specifying the deficiency, does not comply with ... Rule [4-324] and thus does not preserve the issue of sufficiency on appellate review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.