4 Md. App. 705 - Roeder v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1986
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Tasco v. State · Hayette v. State · Berry v. State · 3 Md. App. 66 - Montague v. State · 4 Md. App. 328 - Morris 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Pregnancy of the victim may be established by circumstantial evidence. Absolute certainty of pregnancy under a statute making pregnancy an essential element in the offense is not exact; all the law requires is such reasonable certainty as shall silence all reasonable doubt.’ 1, C. J. S., Abortion § 34 at p. 388. The instant statute proscribes any of the enumerated acts upon a pregnant woman ‘at any period of her pregnancy’, thus not limiting such proscription to any particular stage of the pregnancy and thereby dispelling the oft stressed common law prerequisite that the woman be ‘quick with child,’ meaning having felt the child move within her. Therefore, pregnancy and life are simultaneous with the act of conception and any, actual or attempted, interruption with the natural life cycle thereafter stands violative of the instant statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“MR. DEAN: ‘Proof of guilt beyond all doubt has never been required, even in the most serious criminal cases. The trier of fact in a criminal case is enjoined by law to give due course to the presumption of innocence, and then to proceed cautiously in weighing the evidence. But he is not commanded to be naive and to believe without scrutiny every glib suggestion or farfetched fairytale, whether emanating from the State or the defense. An indispensible ingredient in judgment, in Court as well as out of it, is a modicom of common sense. To prove guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, it is not necessary that every conceivable miraculous coincidence consistent with innocence be made [negatived].’”
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.