30 Md. App. 214 - Hall v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2022
21 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 State v. Roll and Scholl · Ross v. Pick · Smith v. . United States Casualty Co. · Mark v. Kahn · Kenyon v. City of Chicopee
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And there is no necessity for any application for a royal sign manual to change the name. It is a mode which persons often have recourse to, because it gives a greater sanction to it, and makes it more notorious.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. C. G. · State v. C. G.“In the 19th and 20th centuries express statutory provisions for changing names were enacted in many jurisdictions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. C. G. · State v. C. G.“The common law recognized that an individual could change the given name, surname, or both, by which the community knew him merely by assuming a new one, with the restriction that the change could not be effected for fraudulent purposes or to interfere with the rights of others. The common law sprang and was gradually developed out of the groundwork of custom. It was the ancient custom for the son to adopt a surname at will, regardless of that borne by his father, and the practice extended to the given name also.”
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.