Lemley v. Lemley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably State v. Wiegmann (1998), Boswell v. Boswell (1998)
28 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Kliewer v. New Jersey · United States v. Eichman · Wood v. Strickland · Vasquez v. Harris
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y 'grossing up' Mr. Lemley's tax-free pension, the Circuit Court of Montgomery County undoubtedly intended to place him on equal footing with the many parents who pay taxes on their income. In a broad sense, that strikes us as a reasonable approach. The devil, of course, is in the details, and wrestling with those details is a job best left to the legislature rather than the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is nothing in the statute that expressly authorizes the upward adjustment of tax-free income.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he master is not a judge and is not vested with any part of the State's judicial power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Marcus J.
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.