Webb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Harris v. State (1993), Randall Book Corp. v. State (1989)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Benton v. Maryland · Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore · Yarema v. Exxon Corp. · Mason v. State · Brown 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The unit of prosecution is the crime of violence [i.e., the use of the gun as opposed to its possession]. This is so because the act prohibited by [the statute] 'is the use of the handgun....'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t may be that had Webb removed the weapon from his actual or constructive possession, it would be a separate violation when he retrieved it and wore it again on his person. And it may be that if it was shown that the handgun involved in the first incident was a different weapon from that involved in the second incident, there would be two violations. But if any of these circumstances were in fact so, it was incumbent upon the State at trial to prove the circumstance beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a part of a comprehensive legislative scheme “to preserve the peace and tranquility of the State and to protect the rights and liberties of its citizens,” § 36B(a)(iv), the Legislature made it a misdemeanor for [“][a]ny person [to] wear, carry, or transport any handgun, whether concealed or open, upon or about his person____[”] Art. 27 § 36B(b). Cole, J., speaking for the Court in Crawford , after tracing the history of the handgun control legislation, noted that § 36B(b) “sets forth a blanket rule,” 308 Md. at 693 , 521 A.2d 1193 , “designed to discourage and punish the possession of handguns on the streets and public ways,” id., at 695 , 521 A.2d 1193 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eldridge v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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