Duvall v. Lacy’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1999
11 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 Hammond v. Lancaster · Maryland Theatrical Corp. v. Brennan · Buchholtz v. Hill · Green v. Garrett · County Commissioners v. Pocomoke Bridge Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Municipal corporations have only the powers conferred upon them by the Legislature, and these are to be strictly construed. ‘To doubt such power in a given case is to deny its existence.’ Hanlon v. Levin, 168 Md. 674 , 179 A. 286, 287 , Mayor & City Council of City of Baltimore v. Canton Company, 186 Md. 618, 631 , 47 A. 2d 775 .””
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.