27 Md. App. 1 - Richards v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2008
10 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 Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission v. Silkor Development Corp. · New Freedom Corp. v. Brown · Schmidt v. Chambers · SMITH, EXEC. v. Waller · Wheatley v. Fleischmann
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Cause for removal. — A personal representative shall be removed from office upon a finding by the court that he: (1) Misrepresented material facts in the proceedings leading to his appointment; (2) Willfully disregarded an order of the court; (3) Is unable or incapable, with or without his own fault, to discharge his duties and powers effectively; (4) Has mismanaged property; (5) Has failed to maintain on file with the register a currently effective designation of an appropriate local agent for service of process as described in § 5-105(b)(6) of this article; or (6) Has failed, without reasonable excuse, to perform a material duty pertaining to the office.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ayers v. Liller
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.