4 Md. App. 236 - State v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 53 Md. App. 171 - Walker v. State (1982), 373 So. 2d 1042 - Gandy v. State (1979)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 94 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 Lutz v. State · Neusbaum v. State · Height v. State · Clay v. State · Gleaton 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While the crime of manslaughter is not defined by statute in Maryland, it is, as heretofore stated, recognized by Section 387 of Article 27 and provision made for its punishment. The rule is well settled that `where a statute prohibits a particular act, and imposes a penalty for doing it, and a subsequent statute imposes a penalty for the same, or practically the same, offense, the later statute repeals the earlier one, and this is true whether the penalty is increased or diminished.'"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) in doing some unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or (2) in negligently doing some act lawful in itself, or (3) by the negligent omission to perform a legal duty. To this basic definition other authorities add the qualification, as to the first class of involuntary manslaughter, that the unlawful act be malum in se, and not merely malum prohibitum, and as to the second and third classes of the offense, that the negligence be criminally culpable, i.e., that it be gross.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is well settled in this State that where a charge of involuntary manslaughter is predicated on negligently doing some act lawful in itself ... the negligence necessary to support a conviction must be gross or criminal, viz., such as manifests a wanton or reckless disregard of human life.” (footnote omitted) (emphasis supplied).”
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.