27 Md. App. 642 - Waters v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2019
14 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 Rocks v. Brosius · Hyde v. State · Ricker v. Abrams · Harmon v. State Roads Commission · Picking v. State Finance Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. Did the Trial Court err in staying proceedings in the instant case until costs have been paid under Maryland Rule 604 b? “2. Did the Trial Court err in holding that it had inherent Judicial Power to stay proceedings after a mistrial was declared? “3. Was the Order of the lower court appealable prior to trial on the merits?” 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waters v. Smith““I don’t find it necessary to find that he [counsel for the plaintiffs] intentionally misled the Court. I do, however, find that, as a matter of fact, he misled the Court, under the language of Rule 604, Subsection b . . . ‘without substantial justification.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waters v. Smith
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.