13 Md. App. 42 - Gordon v. Howard County’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State Ex Rel. Parr v. Board of County Commissioners · Mayor of Baltimore v. Thompson · Walter v. Board of County Commissioners · Birckhead v. Mayor of Baltimore · Dickenson v. County of Cheyenne
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It appears from the general tenor of these authorities cited with approval by the Court of Appeals that in order to impose a legal duty upon a municipality to post warning signs along its highways or to take other precautionary measures to guard the safety of members of the public using such public ways, the existing hazardous condition must be indeed unusual and extraordinary in nature. Furthermore in accordance with the rule enunciated in Birckhead v. Baltimore [ 174 Md. 32 , 197 A. 615 ], at p. 38, the dangerous condition ‘must be such as would create a reasonable probability of an accident occurring to a traveler.’ ” 13 Md. App. at 48-9 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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