113 Md. App. 464 - Waters v. Whiting’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2014
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 Rohrbeck v. Rohrbeck · Harris v. Harris · Unnamed Attorney v. Attorney Grievance Commission · Popham v. State Farm Mutual Insurance · Planning Board v. Mortimer
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of these rules [Maryland Rule 2-602 and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b) ] is to view ‘an action involving multiple claims or multiple parties as a single judicial unit ordinarily requiring complete disposition before a final appealable judgment may be entered.’ Accordingly, a judgment lacks finality unless it completely disposes of the judicial unit. Rule 2-602[(b)] does empower the trial court to permit exceptions to the rule[.] Absent an exercise of this power, however, there are no exceptions to the judicial unit rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) When allowed. If the court expressly determines in a written order that there is no just reason for delay, it may direct in the order the entry of a final judgment: (1) as to one or more but fewer than all of the claims or parties; ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he filing of post trial motions deprives an otherwise final judgment of its appealability until such motions of appealability have been resolved.”
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.