LeBrun v. Marcey’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Batson v. Shiflett (1992), Colandrea v. Wilde Lake Community Ass'n (2000)
42 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Tait v. Western Maryland Railway Co. · Reynolds v. Stockton · Fletcher v. Flournoy · LeBrun v. Prosise
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]ot only as to every matter which was offered and received to sustain or defeat the claim or demand, but as to any other admissible matter which might have been offered for that purpose. 10 35 Md.App. at 184 , 370 A.2d 141 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Thus, if the defendant interposes two defenses, either of which is sufficient to bar the plaintiffs claim, and there is a finding for the defendant on one of the issues, a finding for the plaintiff on the other issue is immaterial to the judgment, since the judgment would be for the defendant whichever way the court should find on the other issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We may, however, repeat that this court takes judicial notice of its own records. Fletcher v. Flournoy, 198 Md. 53 , 81 A. 2d 232 . The lower court, therefore, may and should take judicial notice of the record in this court of a case in that court.””
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.