18 Md. App. 1 - Kruvant v. Dickerman’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 54 Md. App. 703 - Bastian v. Laffin (1983), 125 Md. App. 313 - Owens Corning v. Walatka (1999)
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 12 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 Pennsylvania Threshermen & Farmers' Mutual Casualty Insurance v. Messenger · M & R Contractors & Builders, Inc. v. Michael · Walston v. Sun Cab Co. · Pfingsten v. Westenhaver · 15 Md. App. 113 - Sun Cab Co. v. Walston
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Maryland, as in the majority of States, it is the rule, in either breach of contract or tort cases, that the burden of proof is on the plaintiff, or on the party who asserts the affirmative of an issue, and that burden never shifts.”
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.