1 Md. App. 528 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2004
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 McCray v. State · 1 Md. App. 213 - Logan v. State · Wright v. State · 1 Md. App. 205 - Chittum v. State · Bevans 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) If he “shall be apprehended having upon him any .pick-lock, key, crow, jack, bit, or other implement, at places and under circumstances from which an intent may be presumed feloniously to break and enter into any dwelling house, warehouse, storehouse, stable or outhouse.” 2) If he “shall have upon him any pistol, hanger,, cutlass, bludgeon, or othér offensive weapon, also at places and under circumstances from which may be presumed an intent feloniously to assault any person.” 3) If he “shall be found in or upon any dwelling house, warehouse, storehouse, stable or outhouse, or in any enclosed yard or garden or area belonging to any house, with an intent to steal any goods .or chattels.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]e reject the appellant’s construction of the statute that a person must be physically apprehended in or upon the dwelling to prove the commission of the offense. We do not agree that this part of the statute requires a person to be arrested flagrante delicto. We deem it significant that with respect to the offense designated by the first part of the statute, the words ‘shall be apprehended’ are used, while with respect to the third part of the statute, here considered, the words ‘shall be found’ are used with no reference to ‘apprehended.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. State““The thrust of the appellant’s argument in support of his first two contentions is that since the appellant was not physically apprehended by the police in or upon the dwelling house he is not within the provisions of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. State
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.