Corey v. Carback’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Harris v. State (1993), Jones v. Hubbard (1999)
2 district · 33 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 Stanley v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Smith v. Hooper · State Ex Rel. Mayor of Baltimore v. Rutherford · Giles v. Dirobbio · McCauley v. Shockey
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The only authority that a clerk has to refuse to accept and file a paper presented for filing is that contained in Md. Rule 1-323. As we noted, that Rule directs the clerk not to accept a paper requiring service 'unless it is accompanied by ... a signed certificate showing the date and manner of service.’ "In regard to receiving and filing paper, as in the making of docket entries, a clerk acts only as a ministerial officer of the court. The law requires the clerk when requested to do so, to record any paper filed with this office and required by law to be recorded. "Thus, as stated in, McCray ... '[c]lerical duties are generally classified as ministerial ... and the act of filing papers with the court is as ministerial and inflexibly mandatory, as any of the clerk’s responsibilities.' “Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, therefore, the clerk has no discretion in the matter and no right to make a judicial determination of whether the paper complies with the Rules or ought to be filed. If the paper has not been presented timely or it suffers from some other deficiency, it is subject to being stricken by the court....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blundon v. Taylor“In regard to receiving and filing paper, as in the making of docket entries, a clerk acts only as a ministerial officer of the court. The law requires the clerk when requested to do so, to record any paper filed with this office and required by law to be recorded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blundon v. Taylor
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.