Cavacos v. Sarwar’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably 133 Md. App. 442 - Berringer v. Steele (2000), 104 Md. App. 167 - Brandon v. Molesworth (1995)
4 district · 35 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 Fowler v. Smith · Heckrotte v. Riddle · Curley v. General Valet Service, Inc. · Ford v. Bradford · Kendall v. Rogers
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of legal sufficiency, we have held, ‘is whether the evidence serves to prove a fact or permits an inference of fact that could enable an ordinarily intelligent mind to draw a rational conclusion therefrom in support of the right of the plaintiff to recover.’ ””
1 later decision 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.