21 Md. App. 121 - Hill v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Bagwell v. Peninsula Regional Medical Center (1995), 37 Md. App. 706 - Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society v. Mutual Fire, Marine & Inland Insurance (1977)
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 Salisbury Beauty Schools v. State Board of Cosmetologists · Brewer v. Mele · Strickler Engineering Corp. v. Seminar, Inc. · Roland Ex Rel. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Lloyd E. Mitchell, Inc. · Price v. Hitaffer
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.
“(b) Transfer of determination to law court. — At the request of an interested person made within the time determined by the court, the issue of fact may be determined by a court of law. When the request is made before the court has determined the issue of fact, the court shall transmit the issue to a court of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judgment in the plenary proceeding is entered by the Orphans’ Court, but the determination of the court of law on issues is final and is binding on the Orphans’ Court. The court of law has tfte same powers, with respect to the jury and the verdict, as in an ordinary action, including “power to direct the jury and grant a new trial. ” A jury may be waived. This court may reverse a determination on issues “without a new trial” and in so doing may authorize the lower court to “direct a finding of the issues in conformity with this opinion and certify such finding” to the Orphans’ Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was not acting in the exercise of its ordinary powers as a court of general jurisdiction. ... The power of the court and its duty was to see that a verdict, upon the issues propounded for inquiry before a jury was reached by legal steps, and competent and legal evidence. It was the province of the court to decide all questions necessarily incidental to the bringing to trial and verdict; and when a verdict was obtained, to certify it to the Orphans’ Court, whence the issues came.”
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.