60 Md. App. 412 - Lane v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2014
21 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 · Haines v. Kerner · Tichnell v. State · Gladden v. State · A. S. Abell Co. v. Sweeney
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant’s conviction must be affirmed if, “after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 , 99 S.Ct. 2781, 2789 , 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979); Tichnell v. State, 287 Md. 695, 717 , 415 A.2d 830 (1980). The legislature revised the theft laws in 1979 in order to create a “single consolidated offense designated as ‘theft’____ The purpose of this revision [was] to eliminate [the] technical and absurd distinctions that have plagued the larceny related offenses and produced a plethora of special provisions.” Joint Subcommittee on Theft Related Offenses, Revision of Maryland Theft Laws and Bad Check Laws, p. 2 (October, 1978). Under the new law “[c]onduct designated as theft ... constitutes a single crime embracing, among others, the separate crimes heretofore known as larceny, larceny by trick, larceny after trust, embezzlement, false pretenses, shoplifting and receiving stolen property.” Md.Ann.Code 1957, art. 27, § 341 (1982 Repl. Vol.)____ If the evidence against appellant was sufficient to prove theft under any subsection of § 342, the court may affirm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The jury could have and apparently did conclude that had appellant not engaged in these acts of deception and had Steed been aware of the financial stati of the real purchasers, Steed would not have parted with its money. From this fact, the jury could fairly infer that appellant used deception to obtain control of the property of Steed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Steed bargained for, and had a primary right to receive, repayment pursuant to the loan documents. What it got was the burdensome, costly and necessarily risky alternative of foreclosure.” (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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