65 Md. App. 38 - Battle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2018
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 · Bell v. United States · Tichnell v. State · Newton v. State · Hall 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the circumstances involving the use of the prohibited weapon put two persons at risk or concern two distinct incidents, there are two separate and distinct violations of the statute, permitting two convictions and two punishments. The unit of prosecution is the crime of violence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a person participates with others in the commission of a crime of robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon he is just as guilty as the other person even though his role may not have been as big and even though he may personally not have personally possessed the weapon. The defendant in these proceedings is charged with conspiracy to commit a crime of robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon. It is therefore your responsibility to determine whether he and the others so conspired, particularly this defendant because he is on trial. Appellant complains that [t]he reinstruction neither defined possession nor answered the jury’s question regarding the significance of the lack of knowledge by co-conspirators. Clearly it did not address the central issue of whether the evidence in light of all relevant circumstances, including possession as defined by law ... showed that the “agreement” included the use of a deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Appellant argues that he cannot be convicted or sentenced for two counts of assault with intent to murder because, at best, the State proved that appellant fired only one shot at the two pursuing police officers. The essence of appellant’s argument is that where one criminal incident results in multiple victims, it is necessarily but one offense. This contention is without merit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Albrecht v. State
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.