Desch v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Chevy Chase Land Co. v. United States (1999), 137 Md. App. 732 - Gregg Neck Yacht Club, Inc. v. County Commissioners (2001)
2 district · 21 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 Klein v. Dove · Mayor of Baltimore v. Chesapeake Marine Railway Co. · Louis Sachs & Sons v. Ward · Weiprecht v. Gill · Green, Tr. v. Eldridge
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]obody can acquire any title by adverse possession of property which the county holds for public purposes. It is firmly established in Maryland that land held by a municipality in its governmental capacity may not be acquired privately by adverse possession.”
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.