148 Md. App. 13 - Polakoff v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2020
15 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 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co. · Petite v. United States · Howard v. United States · Brohawn v. Transamerica Insurance · Ritter v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'to settle and afford relief from uncertainty and insecurity with respect to rights, status, and other legal relations.' " Polakoff v. Hampton , 148 Md. App. 13 , 25, 810 A.2d 1029 (2002) (quoting Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-402 ). "It further allows that any person 'whose rights, status, or other legal relations are affected by a statute ... may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the ... statute, ... and obtain a declaration of rights, status, or other legal relations under it.' " Id. (quoting Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-406 ). Declaratory relief "is barred by some statutory and judicially-crafted restrictions in limited circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a court may grant a declaratory judgment ... if it will serve to terminate the uncertainty or controversy giving rise to the proceeding, and if ... [a] party asserts a legal relation, status, right, or privilege and this is challenged or denied by an adversary party, who also has or asserts a concrete interest in it.”
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.