14 Md. App. 310 - Peterman v. Peterman’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2019
24 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 11 Md. App. 638 - Quinn v. Quinn · Carter v. Carter · Andrews v. Andrews · Kriedo v. Kriedo · 12 Md. App. 1 - Sullivan v. Auslaender
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n all cases where a person makes an application for a decree or modification of a decree with respect to the custody ... concerning a child or children of the parties ... the court ... may make such award of costs and counsel fees to either party as shall be just and proper under all the circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“remains primarily, and the mother secondarily, bound to support and maintain the [child],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“costs and counsel fees not covered or contemplated by a separation agreement”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.