State, Use, Clark v. Ferling’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
14 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Clea v. Mayor of Baltimore (1988), Ashburn v. Anne Arundel County (1986)
14 district · 54 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 State Ex Rel. Weddle v. Board of County School Commissioners · Buchholtz v. Hill · State ex rel. Cocking v. Wade · State Ex Rel. Watkins v. Rich · Pressman v. D'ALESANDRO
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ministerial refers to duties in respect to which nothing is left to discretion as distinguished from those where the official has the freedom and authority to make decisions and choices.” Id. at 113 , 151 A.2d at 139 . And in Schneider v. Hawkins, 179 Md. 21, 25 , 16 A.2d 861, 864 (1940), we explained: The term”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not properly maintainable against the state or its agencies, cannot be enforced circuitously against an executive officer who carries out governmental functions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. (1997)
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.