Boehm v. Boehm’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably Salisbury Beauty Schools v. State Board of Cosmetologists (1973), McKeever v. Washington Heights Realty Corp. (1944)
63 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 Demuth v. Old Town Bank · Semmes v. Worthington · Abrams v. Eckenrode · Hill v. Pinder · Mayor of Baltimore v. Johns Hopkins Hospital
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the bill does not pray for a decree for compensation to the extent of the purchase money paid and a lien on the land therefor, it does contain the prayer for general relief, and as stated by this court in Hill v. Pinder, 150 Md. 397 , at page 414, 133 A. 134 , at page 140, “Under the prayer for general relief the court is not confined to what may be specially asked, but may adapt the relief to the nature of the case as stated in the bill; and, if the specific relief prayed for cannot be granted, the plaintiff may be given any relief which is consistent with, and warranted by, the allegations of the bill.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Laches, in legal significance, is not mere delay, but delay that works a disadvantage to another. So long as parties are the same condition, it matters little whether one presses a right promptly or slowly, within limits allowed by law; but when, knowing his rights, he takes no steps to enforce them until the condition of the other party has, in good faith, become so changed that he cannot be restored to his former state, if the right be then enforced, delay becomes inequitable, and operates as estoppel against the assertion of the right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When possession is assumed as an act of part performance it must appear that the land has been delivered and the possession taken in pursuance of the contract and so retained and continued. The possession must be referable to the contract. Mere occupancy, not shown to he in pursuance of the contract, does not constitute part performance. Miller’s Equity Procedure, Sec. 707; Semmes v. Worthington, 38 Md. 298 .” (Emphasis supplied.) 182 Md. at 265 , 34 A. 2d at 452 .”
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.