33 Md. App. 635 - Christensen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 53 Md. App. 171 - Walker v. State (1982), Hardy v. State (1984)
2 district · 22 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 Thomas v. State · Parker v. Junior Press Printing Service, Inc. · Neal v. State · Cousins v. State · Farrow 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think it clear from an examination of the elements of assault with intent to rape and attempted rape that, while the purpose to engage in illicit coitus is attendant in each offense, the crimes are different. If an attempt to commit a rape proceeds to a degree where it is tantamount to an assault upon the victim, the offense becomes the felony of assault with intent to rape, but if the attempt to rape falls short of an assault, the offense remains a common law misdemeanor. Burton v. State, 8 Ala.App. 295 , 62 So. 394 (1913). See also Taff v. State, 69 Tex.Crim. 528 , 155 S.W. 214 (1913).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no such crime as an attempt to commit an assault---- Indeed, assault is an attempt ... Patently, then, the third count in part asseverated a non-existing crime, i.e., an attempt to commit an assault or, reduced to its actual meaning, an attempt to attempt.” (footnote and citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There can be no such offense as an “attempt to attempt” a crime. Since a simple assault is nothing more than an attempt to commit a battery, and aggravated assaults are nothing more than attempts to commit murder, rape, or robbery, an attempt to commit an assault, whether simple or aggravated, is not a crime.”
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.