120 Md. App. 653 - Brown v. Parran’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2016
10 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 Ferrero Construction Co. v. Dennis Rourke Corp. · Cadem v. Nanna · Paape v. Grimes · Lawson v. Mullinix · Caplan v. Buckner
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule against perpetuities is a limitation on contingent future interests in property. The rule prevents property interests from vesting too remotely, so that current owners will not be discouraged from making the most effective uses of their properties. The rule is concerned with restrictions that render title uncertain as well as restraints on alienation. Under the traditional rule adhered to in Maryland, the future interest, at the effective date of the instrument creating it, must vest within the period of the rule (life in being plus 21 years). .... [A] court must construe the conveyance in question independent of the rule [against perpetuities] and then apply the rule. The rule against perpetuities applies to contracts for the sale of real property.... If a condition of the contract possibly may cause legal title to vest in the purchaser outside the period of the rule, the contract violates the rule and is not enforceable.”
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.