Thomas v. Howard County’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2014
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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 157 (§ 7 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen · Massachusetts v. Mellon · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations Inc v. B Camp Barlow · Territory of New Mexico Ex Rel McLean Company v. Denver Rio Grande Railroad Company
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In our opinion, this is and has been a salutary policy conducive to the advancement of the public interest and should not be narrowed or impaired. We note with satisfaction that the Maryland view in this regard represents the general trend of the authorities in our sister states and especially in the Federal Courts where the restrictive holding by the Supreme Court of the United States in Frothingham v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 447 , 43 S.Ct. 597 , 67 L.Ed. 1078 (1923) has been substantially eroded...." Id. at 433.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Maryland has `gone rather far in sustaining the standing of taxpayers to challenge ... alleged illegal and ultra vires actions of public officials.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial loss to the County of permit fees....”
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.