Cohen v. Baltimore County’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2010
2 district · 19 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 Underwood v. Fairbanks, Morse & Co. · Whipps v. Town of Greybull · Board of County Commissioners v. MacPhail · Inter-City Land Co. v. Baltimore County · Hormes v. Baltimore County
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So, as we see it, unless there are charter or statutory provisions to the contrary, the county executive not only had power to make the agreement in controversy, but authority to give it legal effect by approving it in the form in which it had been prepared to evidence the intentions of the contracting parties.” 229 Md. at 523-24 , 185 A. 2d at 188 . (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the County admitted] that it negotiated with Court Plaza to acquire a right of way for the construction by the County of a new road through the property mentioned and adjacent property. And although it was denied in the answer, the chancellor found that as a result of the negotiations an oral agreement was made whereby Court Plaza would convey the required right of way to the County without compensation for such severance damages as would ensue as a result of the taking....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mandate, either in the code or Charter, requiring the execution of a formal contract,” holding that a Baltimore County Charter provision requiring the county executive to sign all contracts did not preclude enforceability before the contract was formally executed because the executive’s signature was merely a”
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.