State v. Fabritz’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 249 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 256 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore (1987), Tucker v. Fireman's Fund Insurance (1986)
4 federal appellate · 249 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Northern Securities Company v. United States · Criminal Injuries Compensation Board v. Gould · Smith v. Higinbothom · Neusbaum 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 256 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here statutory language is plain and free from ambiguity and expresses a definite and sensible meaning, courts are not at liberty to disregard the natural import of words with a view towards making the statute express an intention which is different from its plain meaning.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In the final analysis, in construing any statute requiring construction, courts must consider not only the literal or usual meaning of words, but their meaning and effect in light of the setting, the objectives and purposes of the enactment, with the real intention prevailing over the literal intention even though such a construction may seem to be contrary to the letter of the statute.” State v. Fabritz, 276 Md. 416, 422 , 348 A.2d 275, 279 (1975), cert. denied, 425 U.S. 942 (1976).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[ajdherence to the meaning of words does not require or permit isolation of words from their context ‘xxx [since] the meaning of the plainest words in a statute may be controlled by the context____’ ” In construing statutes, therefore, results that are unreasonable, illogical or inconsistent with common sense should be avoided whenever possible consistent with the statutory language, with the real legislative intention prevailing over the intention indicated by the literal meaning. Id. at 422 , 348 A.2d 275 (citations omitted).”
3 later decisions 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.