121 Md. App. 28 - Davis v. DiPino’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2024
2 district · 19 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Younger v. Harris · Malley v. Briggs · Beck v. State of Ohio
Most-quoted passages
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“When the trial court sits as the trier of fact, our review of its factual findings is governed by the “clearly erroneous” rule embodied in Md. Rule 8-131(c). See Barnes v. Children’s Hosp., 109 Md.App. 543, 552-53 , 675 A.2d 558 (1996); Kelly Catering, Inc. v. Holman, 96 Md.App. 256, 269 , 624 A.2d 1300 (1993), aff'd, 334 Md. 480 , 639 A.2d 701 (1994). So long as the trial court’s factual findings are supported by “any competent, material evidence,” then we cannot set those findings aside as clearly erroneous, “even if we might have found otherwise.” Barnes, 109 Md.App. at 553 , 675 A.2d 558 . Moreover, we must view the evidence, and all inferences fairly deducible from the evidence, in the light most favorable to the prevailing party. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State ... subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party iiyured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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