Van Royen v. Lacey’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Merchants Mortgage Co. v. Lubow (1975), Insurance Co. of North America v. Miller (2001)
31 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 Van Royen v. Lacey · Scanlon v. Walshe · Lacey v. Van Royen · Eder v. Rothamel · Bynum v. Warden
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]stoppel by admission or by pleading has long been recognized in this State, Stone v. Stone, 230 Md. 248, 253 , 186 A. 2d 590 (1962); Scanlon v. Walshe, 81 Md. 118, 132 , 31 A. 498 (1895); Mobberly v. Mobberly, 60 Md. 376, 379 (1883); Hall v. McCann, 51 Md. 345, 351 (1879); and Edes v. Garey, 46 Md. 24, 41 (1877). In the latter case the Court of Exchequer in Cave v. Mills, 7 H. & W. 927, was quoted as saying, “A man shall not be allowed to blow hot and cold, to claim at one time and deny at another.” [Id. at 651-52.]”
2 later decisions 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.