Riley v. Naylor’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Ager v. Baltimore Transit Co. (1957), Offutt v. Montgomery County Board of Education (1979)
33 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 Lindheimer v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co. · Green v. T. A. Shoemaker & Co. · Baltimore City Passenger Railway Co. v. Kemp · United States v. Dashiel · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Brydon ex rel. Davis
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the accent is on the variety and scope of the elements that may be considered, the prayer requires that every form of the permitted damages is in proximate causal connection to the injuries sustained. The adaptability of this instruction to various and numerous conditions requires general and flexible terms, which acquire their requisite measure of certainty by the necessity of their nature and certain relation to particular wrongful injuries. It is, therefore, helpful and permissible that a larger measure of definiteness be given by other cautionary instructions to inform the jurors more specifically the circumscribed mode and boundaries of their award of damages.” ( 179 Md. at 7 , 16 A. 2d at 860 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“After a verdict is rendered, the court has the discretionary power to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial, if in the interest of justice. The action of the trial court in the exercise of this authority is not assignable as error on appeal.”
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.