Griffith v. Wakefield’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Johnson v. Oroweat Foods Co. (1986), 89 Md. App. 448 - Fowler v. Printers II, Inc. (1991)
1 federal appellate · 48 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 Mugford v. Mayor of Baltimore · Cheeks v. Cedlair Corp. · Maryland Classified Employees Ass'n v. Anderson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘If the proposed Baltimore County Charter amendment had merely authorized the Baltimore County Council to enact a system of binding arbitration ... and if, pursuant to that authorization, the Baltimore County Council had exercised its discretion to enact an ordinance containing provisions similar to those in the proposed Charter amendment ..., the present case would be distinguishable from Cheeks .... In the present case, however, the proposed Charter amendment did not authorize the County Council to enact binding arbitration legislation for County employees. It did not authorize any decisions by the constitutional legislative body. Instead, under the proposal, the Charter itself would contain all of the law on the subject, and the Baltimore County Council would be deprived of all decision-making authority concerning the subject!.]’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[A] charter amendment within the context of Art. XI-A is necessarily limited in substance to amending the form or structure of government initially established by adoption of the charter. A charter amendment, therefore, differs in its fundamental character from a simple legislative enactment. Its content cannot transcend its limited office and be made to serve or function as a vehicle though which to adopt local legislation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Court’s decision in Cheeks is dispositive of the issue presented in the case at bar. Like the charter amendment in Cheeks , the proposed charter amendment in the present case prescribes ‘in lengthy detail’ [footnote omitted] an entire system of binding arbitration for a select group of county employees; it leaves nothing for the determination of the County Executive or the County Council.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.