42 Md. App. 349 - Watkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2018
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 Dorsey v. State · Lutz v. State · Tellez v. Canton Railroad Co. · 3 Md. App. 270 - Fabian v. State · Morrow 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In 25 R. C. L. 1054, it is said that: ‘It has been said that statutes are not presumed to make any alterations in the common law further than is expressly declared, and that a statute, made in the affirmative without any negative expressed or implied, does not take away the common law. The rules of the common law are not to be changed by doubtful implication, nor overturned except by clear and unambiguous language. In order to hold that a statute has abrogated common law rights existing at the date of its enactment, it must clearly appear that they are repugnant to the act, or the part thereof invoked, that their survival would in effect deprive it of its efficacy and render its provisions nugatory.’ Where however, a statute and the common law are in conflict, the common law yields to the statute to the extent of the inconsistency {Sutherland on Stat. Const, sec. 294; 12 C.J. 186), and a statute which deals with an entire subject matter is generally construed as abrogating the common law as to that subject.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To be sure, the language of the 1996 assault statutes contain no specific words of repeal or abrogation, nor is there any conflict between those statutes and the common law. We have determined, however, that the statutes as adopted represent the entire subject matter of the law of assault and battery in Maryland, and as such, abrogate the common law on the subject.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the adoption of Article 27, Sec. 139, the statutory law of escape, abrogated the common law offense of escape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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