Moberly v. Herboldsheimer’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Mayor of Baltimore v. Chase (2000), Government Employees Insurance v. Insurance Commissioner (1993)
52 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 Deems v. Western Maryland Railway Co. · Davidson v. Miller · Mayor of Baltimore v. State Ex Rel. Blueford · Kerr v. Enoch Pratt Free Library · Finan v. M. C.C. of Cumberland
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court does not find it necessary to decide motives. If the hospital is a public institution, and the information sought does not come under one of the exceptions, the information sought should be made available. The Court does not find that invidious or improper motives, if any, can bring information otherwise revealable under the Act into the classification of Art. 76A 3.(f) where disclosure would do ‘substantial injury to the public interest.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any documentary material that ... is made by a unit or instrumentality of the State government... or received by the unit or instrumentality in connection with the transaction of public business.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"If the General Assembly did not intend this interpretation when it enacted this far reaching statute, it should so state."”
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.