Smith v. Lapidus’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1990
6 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 Snyder v. Cearfoss · Tiller v. Elfenbein · Maryland Steel Co. v. Marney · Lee v. Housing Auth. of Baltimore · Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad v. Kimmey
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial judge seems to have assumed the truth of everything stated in the appellants’ affidavits, but took the view that in any event the entry in the hospital records tended to impeach the mother’s testimony. He obviously felt that the entry, if presented to another jury, might affect the verdicts, or even the amount of the verdicts. This appears to be the purport of his brief opinion. We cannot hold that this was an abuse of discretion.” 208 Md. at 279 , 118 A. 2d at 376 .”
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.