90 Md. App. 220 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2019
20 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Chisley v. State · State v. Faulkner · Sims v. State · Mayor of Rockville v. Geeraert
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jury in the case sub judice is presumed to have followed the court’s instruction. Had the jury been properly instructed that voluntary intoxication was not a defense to second degree murder and had the jury further understood that, if they were persuaded that appellant was so intoxicated that he was unable to commit an intentional killing then the proper verdict would have been second degree murder of the depraved heart variety, rather than voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he erosion, through voluntary intoxication, of the specific intent to kill does not ... move the crime down from a higher level of blameworthiness (first degree) to a lower level of blameworthiness (second degree) within the context of the same murderous mens rea (intent to kill), but rather moves the crime down and over from a murderous mens rea requiring a specific intent to a different murderous mens rea not requiring such a specific intent [depraved heart].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when an appellant makes a timely objection, but fails to object at subsequent points in the proceedings, an objection is deemed waived.”
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.