Elias v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 156 Md. App. 139 - Snowden v. State (2004), Taylor v. Harford County Department of Social Services (2004)
4 district · 23 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Burks v. United States · State v. Albrecht · West v. State · Snowden 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the defendant caused [offensive physical contact with] [physical harm to] (victim); (2) that the contact was the result of an intentional or reckless act of the defendant and was not accidental; and (3) that the contact was not consented to by (victim) [or not legally justified].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“review the case on both the law and the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.