Bartell v. Bartell’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Attorney Grievance Commission v. Gallagher (2002), Pappas v. Pappas (1980)
57 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 Snowhite v. State, Use of Tennant · Fleming v. Prince George's County · Sewell v. Sewell · Eastern States Corp. v. Eisler · 202 F. Supp. 181 - Houser v. Snap-On Tools Corporation
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 mandate of Maryland Rule 886 that when an action is heard by the trial court without a jury 'the judgment of the lower court will not be set aside on the evidence unless clearly erroneous’ is applicable notwithstanding the fact that the judge did not have the opportunity to see and hear the witnesses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it was critically important that Dr. Bartell personally testify before the court. Since it was he and he alone who was responsible for his absence from the State and from the trial court, the chancellor did not err in excluding the deposition.”
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.