Duffy v. Conaway’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Marzullo v. Kahl (2001), Derry v. State (2000)
77 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 Powell v. McCormack · Department of Natural Resources v. Linchester Sand & Gravel Corp. · Bureau of Mines v. George's Creek Coal and Land Co. · Biro v. Schombert · Tanner v. McKeldin
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court consistently has presumed that general recodifi-cations of statutes, such as Title 9 of the Labor & Employment Article, are for the purpose of clarity only and not substantive change, unless the language of the recodified statute unmistakably indicates the intention of the Legislature to modify the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers of Government ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other; and no person exercising the functions of one of said Departments shall assume or discharge the duties of any other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n light of the separation of powers provision of the Maryland Constitution, set forth in Article 8 of the Declaration of Rights, a court has no jurisdiction to perform a nonjudicial function,”
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.