14 Md. App. 627 - Woods v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Ford v. State (1993), 93 Md. App. 422 - Lamb v. State (1992)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 5 Md. App. 450 - Williams v. State · Roberts v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary · Veney v. State · Mitchell v. State · Kellum 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a person be struck from behind, or by stealth or surprise, or while asleep, he is certainly the victim of a battery. But if we accept the oft-repeated statement that every battery included or is preceded by an assault, and if there could be no assault without premonitory apprehension in the victim, then it could be argued that there was no battery. That is not the law. See Am.Jur.2d, Assault and Battery, § 4, State v. Adamo, 9 N.J.Super. 7 , 74 A.2d 341 , State v. Godfrey, 17 Or. 300 , 20 P. 625 , Nelson v. State, (Fla.App.) 157 So.2d 96 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where an assault is charged the authorities show that the jury are to decide whether there was any intention to do any violence or injury; but the authorities also establish, that if in a threatening and rude or angry manner a man points a sword, or fork, at another, or shakes his fist in the face of the other, within striking distance, attended with a present ability to strike, although no stroke is given, such act is an assault, notwithstanding the failure to strike.” (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether apprehension of impending harm on the part of the potential victim is a necessary ingredient of assault in tort law, we need not and do not decide. And while such apprehension may be present in most criminal assaults, it is not always present, and therefore it cannot be a required element.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.