Waters v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably 44 Md. App. 398 - Scheve v. McPherson (1979), Salvagno v. Frew (2005)
37 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 Shilkret v. Annapolis Emergency Hospital Ass'n · Snyder v. Cearfoss · Lee v. State · Pearlman v. State · Eastern States Corp. v. Eisler
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an action or part of an action, if the court finds that any proceeding was had (1) in bad faith, (2) without substantial justification, or (3) for purposes of delay the court shall require the moving party to pay to the adverse party the amount of the costs thereof and the reasonable expenses incurred by the adverse party in opposing such proceeding, including reasonable attorneys’ fees.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether an Order to Pay Counsel Fees must require payment at a specific time or times in order to be immediately appealable as an Order for the payment of money pursuant to [§] 12-303(c)(5).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simmons v. Perkins
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.