Clarke v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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.

1. ““Moreover, as this Court said in Greenway v. State, 8 Md. App. 194 , it is a well recognized rule of law that an individual ‘with an unlawful purpose in mind, who deliberately “shuts his eyes” to avoid knowing what would otherwise be obvious to view, acts at his peril in this regard as far as the criminal law is concerned, and is treated as having “knowledge of the facts as they are ultimately discovered to be.” Perkins, Criminal Law (1957), pp. 684-685.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 24 Md. App. 267 - Jordan v. State