Langrall, Muir & Noppinger v. Gladding’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably 41 Md. App. 579 - Lahocki v. Contee Sand & Gravel Co. (1979), Hughes v. State (1980)
56 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 I. W. Berman Properties v. Porter Bros. · Dunsmuir Masonic Temple v. Superior Court · Ventresca v. Weaver Brothers · Stanford v. District Title Insurance · State v. Churchill
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We placed the responsibility on the trial judge to weigh and balance the rights, interests, and reasons of the parties in light of the public demand for prompt resolution of litigation when inactivity characterized a cause of action. We suggested that the trial judge, on the scene, will have a perception and understanding of the legal environment in which the case is temporarily mired. Therefore, he was vested with the discretion to be exercised consistent with the spirit of the law while subserving the ends of justice and fairness to the parties.” Id. 400-01 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““He was the most knowledgeable party as to the ultimate effect of the court’s ruling on his defense. If he felt abused, he had only to preserve the basis for his contention by requesting the court to record its reasons for review. However, he made no such request and now, instead, invites the appellate court to rule in a vacuum. No court can perceive the subtlety of a trial court’s judgment or understand the balancing factors employed by it from a silent record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[G]ood cause must be evidenced by a display of diligence to prosecute the case during the period of alleged inaction; and that the trial court’s exercise of discretion will not be set aside on appeal except in extreme cases of clear abuse, Stanford v. District Title Ins. Co., 260 Md. 550 , 273 A. 2d 190 (1971). [Langrall, Muir & Nopp’r v. Gladding, 282 Md. 397, 400 , 384 A. 2d 737 (1978)]”
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.