122 Md. App. 295 - Doe v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2010
22 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 Braunfeld v. Gibbons · Harris v. Jones · Twyman v. Twyman · Batson v. Shiflett · Heacock v. Heacock
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“causing the plaintiff to develop a parental relationship with a child, believing that child to be his biological offspring, and then causing plaintiff to learn that the child was not biologically his own [and] using the plaintiff to fulfill the emotional, physical, and financial obligations of a husband for almost five years and of a father for fifteen years, knowing these obligations were not really his.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Marriage contemplates numerous promises for the future .... Promises made with regard to the future (including those of a financial nature) may not be binding in the event the parties no longer have a future together.... Moreover, it was a mutual decision between the parties that Plaintiff would not contribute to his 401 [ (k) ] retirement plan. The money was placed in a joint checking account— available for use by and for the benefit of both parties. The Defendant did not obtain use of those funds without Plaintiffs complicity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““It remains my belief that at some point in the course [of] our relationship I disappointed you deeply, and that this is ... responsible for bringing about the distance which has complicated our interactions during the past few years. The commencement of this change seems to roughly correlate with the birth of our children.... You will always be the father of my children.... The divulging of their identities will be at your discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Doe
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.