107 Md. App. 585 - Shofer v. Stuart Hack Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2021
15 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mertens v. Hewitt Associates · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Davis v. Davis · Clark v. Elza
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Generally. Except as provided in section (b) of this Rule, an order or other form of decision, however designated, that adjudicates fewer than all of the claims in an action (whether raised by original claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim), or that adjudicates less than an entire claim, or that adjudicates the rights and liabilities of fewer than all the parties to the action: (1) is not a final judgment; (2) does not terminate the action as to any of the claims or any of the parties; and (3) is subject to revision at any time before the entry of a judgment that adjudicates all of the claims by and against all of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rule 2-602 is not a conduit for trial judges to certify any interlocutory order as a final judgment so as to acquire an advisory opinion from this Court on a pressing legal issue. The certification process is “limited to orders which, by their nature, have a characteristic of finality. Such orders must be completely dispositive of an entire claim or party.” Snowden v. Baltimore Gas & Electric, 300 Md. 555, 563 , 479 A.2d 1329 (1984); see also Pearlstein v. Maryland Deposit Ins., 79 Md.App. 41, 51 , 555 A.2d 528 (1989) (stating that “[a]n order that merely resolves an issue within a claim rather than an entire claim may not be certified pursuant to this rule”). A trial judge should only certify orders for final judgment in extraordinary circumstances and in an effort to prevent “sufficient hardship or unfairness.” Planning Bd. v. Mortimer, 310 Md. 639, 648 , 530 A.2d 1237 (1987).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Rule 2-602. Judgments not disposing of entire action. (a) Generally except as provided in Section (b) of this Rule, an order or other form of decision, however designated, that adjudicates fewer than all of the claims in an action (whether raised by original claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third party claim), or that adjudicates less than an entire claim, or that adjudicates the rights and liabilities of fewer than all parties to the action: is not a final judgment;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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