Herring v. Christensen’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably Harrison v. Montgomery County Board of Education (1983), Smith v. Gray Concrete Pipe Co. (1973)
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 Benson v. Baltimore Traction Co. · State Ex Rel. Weddle v. Board of County School Commissioners · Carroll v. Spencer · State Ex Rel. Alston v. Baltimore Fidelity Warehouse Co. · State Ex Rel. Potter v. Longeley
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established law in Maryland that ‘the owner of land owes no duty to a trespasser or licensee, even one of tender years, except to abstain from wilful or wanton misconduct and entrapment.’ Levine v. Miller, 218 Md. 74, 79 , 145 A. 2d 418, 421 . See Carroll v. Spencer, 204 Md. 387 , 104 A. 2d 628 ; Benson v. Baltimore Traction Co., 77 Md. 535 , 26 A. 973 ; Duff v. United States, 171 F. 2d 846 (4th Cir.). * * * “The problem of injury to trespassing children has been before this Court on many occasions. Since 1894 in Mergenthaler v. Kirby, 79 Md. 182 , 28 A. 1065 , we have uniformly rejected any exception to the rule that trespassers and bare licensees take the premises as they find them. Levine v. Miller, Carroll v. Spencer, both supra; State v. Fidelity Warehouse Co., 176 Md. 341 , 4 A. 2d 739 ; State v. Machen, 164 Md. 579 , 165 A. 695 ; State v. Longeley, 161 Md. 563 , 158 A. 6 ; Balto. City v. De Palma, 137 Md. 179 , 112 A. 277 .” Id. at 241 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hicks v. Hitaffer““Common sense would have told me * * We repeat the recent but now oft-quoted comment in Herring v. Christensen, 252 Md. 240 , 249 A. 2d 718 (1969) : “To adopt appellants’ position would eliminate the consistency and stability in this Court’s rulings which are necessary for our citizens to know their respective rights and obligations.” Id. at 242 .”
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.