120 Md. App. 699 - Wells v. Polland’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2023
2 district · 17 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 Heat & Power Corp. v. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. · Berkey v. Delia · Bagwell v. Peninsula Regional Medical Center · Rosenblatt v. Exxon Co., U.S.A. · Clea v. Mayor of Baltimore
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the person injured did not act merely on motives of his own ... but that he entered the premises because he was led by the acts or conduct of the owner or occupier to believe that the premises were intended to be used in the manner in which he used them, and that such use was not only acquiesced in, but was in accordance with the intention or design for which the way or place was adapted and prepared or allowed to be used.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is unreasonable to suggest that every time an owner or real estate company places a 'sale' sign outside a house, the owner or company [is] 'inviting' people to come in.... To hold otherwise would mean that anytime an owner puts a property up for sale and posts a simple 'sale' sign in front of the property, the public-at-large would be free to enter the property at anytime [sic] of the day or night with the benefit of being an invitee rather than a trespasser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“believe that [the landowner] intended visitors to use the premises for the purpose that the person is pursuing and that the use was in accordance with the intention or design for which the premises were adapted or prepared”
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.