Lamb v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It has frequently been stated that an attempt to commit a misdemeanor, is, by the common law, a misdemeanor. There are undoubtedly many instances in which this is true. But it cannot be maintained as a universal principle. The law has declared that an attempt to commit a felony, or a persuasion of another person to commit a felony, is a misdemeanor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Allen v. State

2. ““It is a flagrant crime, at common law, to attempt to procure the miscarriage or abortion of a woman, because it interferes with and violates the mysteries of nature, in that process by which the human race is propagated and continued. It is a crime against nature, which obstructs the fountain of life, and therefore it is punished.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 4 Md. App. 705 - Roeder v. State

3. ““A battery is defined to be the unlawful beating of another; and an assault is an attempt to beat another without touching him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 14 Md. App. 627 - Woods v. State