20 Md. App. 346 - Colburn v. Colburn’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““What Dackman said was that, an equity court, under its inherent right and power, could act in cases in which only support was sought, similarly to the way it may act in a decree for a divorce under the authority bestowed by Art. 16, Section 4. The precise holding was that a court of equity has the inherent right and power to require sequestration or attachment of a non-resident husband’s property within its jurisdiction as a source of support and maintenance to a legally and factually deserving wife and to award her that support and maintenance from the property. The real significance of the holding, however, was that the court has this right and power despite a decree of divorce granted by a foreign state without the wife being personally before the foreign court. It is clear that this was a departure from the former rule followed in Maryland, even though the Court expressly limited its decision and holding to the particular facts of the case before it.” 20 Md. App. at 362 , 316 A. 2d at 292 . (emphasis supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 36 Md. App. 538 - Altman v. Altman