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← 968 A2D 27 - Norman v. State

Norman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
October 2016
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Kyles v. Whitley · Seward v. State · Atkinson 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.

  1. “apprehending criminals who are involved in drugs” from "a drug dealer who was familiar with cocaine because he bought and sold the drug.” Id. at 31 . That rationale is consistent with the Advisory Committee Notes to Federal Rule of Evidence 701, which explain that if the witness such a police officer was to testify about “how a narcotic was manufactured”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “police officers must be qualified as experts before identifying a controlled substance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “apprehending criminals who are involved in drugs” from”
    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.