70 Md. App. 83 - Lambert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2024
20 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 Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · Tichnell v. State · Hall v. State · State v. Faulkner · Bruce 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.
“it is the duty of the defendant, when defending himself outside the home, to retreat or avoid the danger if the means to do so are within his power and consistent with his safety. Where, however, the peril is so imminent that he cannot retreat safely, he has a right to stand his ground and defend himself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“He did not state he felt it necessary to stab the victim to defend himself. The evidence leads to the conclusion that appellant subjectively experienced various emotions during the fight, but fear was not one of them. Moreover, appellant’s repeated assertions that his mind was a “blank” during the incident are inconsistent with and belie a fearful state of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While someone in appellant’s position might have entertained an honest but unreasonable belief that he needed to use deadly force to defend himself, the evidence famishes no indication that appellant did,, in fact, so believe. (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.