Cramer v. Wildwood Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1988 · most notably Grantham v. Board of County Commissioners (1968), McCann v. McGinnis (1970)
2 district · 24 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 Tiller v. Elfenbein · National Surety Corp. v. Sharpe · Lancaster v. Gardiner · Hanley v. Stulman · Forest Lake Cemetery v. Baker
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Moreover, although as a general rule an enrolled decree may not be reopened except upon bill for review, or by an original bill for fraud, the court has power to reopen where the case had not been heard on its merits and where there is a showing that the decree was entered by surprise or mistake, or where the circumstances are such as to satisfy the court that the decree should be set aside. Pugh v. Waclawski, 211 Md. 346, 350 , and cases cited. Rule 625 also recognizes the revisory power of a court, after enrollment of a decree, in cases of “fraud, mistake or irregularity”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““a. Generally. For a period of thirty days after the entry of a judgment, or thereafter pursuant to motion filed within such period, the court shall have revisory power and control over such judgment. After the expiration of such period the court shall have revisory power and control over such judgment, only in case of fraud, mistake or irregularity. ” (Emphasis added.)”
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.