27 Md. App. 605 - Johnson v. Dortch’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2007
2 district · 18 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 Greenfeld v. Hook · Sun Cab Company, Inc. v. Cusick · State, Use of Taylor v. Barlly · Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Blanchard · Creaser v. Owens
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This large group of previous cases makes clear that when the unfavored driver sues, the ‘boulevard rule’ barring his recovery applies to an acci dent which occurs between an unfavored driver and the favored motorist on the ‘boulevard’, either in the intersection or at a point, though technically outside the intersection, so close to it that the unfavored entering driver interferes with the favored driver’s right-of-way into or through the intersection .. . unless, under appropriate circumstances, the unfavored driver is rescued by the doctrine of last clear chance ....” 2 (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paul v. Lyons“Like the Rock of Gibraltar we remain firm and will not allow the legislative mandates contained in this right-of-way statute to be judicially either bypassed or otherwise eroded through new waves of attack.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dennard v. Green““Here, the trial court correctly found the Boulevard Rule applicable and the Boulevard Rule violated by appellant.””
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.