Bringe v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.), Inc. (1978), Attorney General v. Johnson (1978)
75 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 Curtis v. Loether · Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Capital Traction Co. v. Hof · Pernell v. Southall Realty · Minneapolis St Louis Railroad Company v. George Bombolis
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(e) Jury trial—(1) In a civil action in which the amount in controversy exceeds $500, exclusive of attorney’s fees if attorney’s fees are recoverable by law or contract, a party may demand a jury trial pursuant to the Maryland Rules.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Bringe v. Collins [ 274 Md. 338 ,] 346-347 [ 335 A.2d 670 ], [application for stay denied, 421 U.S. 983 , 95 S.Ct. 1986 , 44 L.Ed.2d 475 (1975) ], that “an action ... by a landlord to recover possession of his premises, is historically an action at law to which the right to a jury trial has always attached in this State.” The Court [in Bringe'] further explained that “[f]or a party in a landlord-tenant action to be entitled to a jury trial, there must either be a claim for money damages over $500.00 [the jurisdictional amount at that time] or a claim that the value of the right to possession exceeds $500.00.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Article XV, § 6, of the Maryland Constitution, like the Seventh Amendment, guarantees a right to a jury trial in actions at law, where historically there was a right to a jury trial, as opposed to equitable action where there was no such right. Pernell v. Southall Realty, supra, 416 U.S. at 374-375; Curtis v. Loether, supra, 415 U.S. at 193-197; Knee v. City Pass. Ry. Co., 87 Md. 623, 624 , 40 A. 890 (1898).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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