In Re Riddlemoser’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably In Re Adoption/Guardianship No. 93321055/CAD (1997), 110 Md. App. 493 - Maryland Commission on Human Relations v. Downey Communications, Inc. (1996)
44 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 United States v. Johnson · Lloyd v. Board of Supervisors of Elections · Reyes v. Prince George's County · Rasmussen by Mitchell v. Fleming · Attorney General v. Anne Arundel County School Bus Contractors Ass'n
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the public interest clearly will be hurt if the question is not immediately decided, if the matter involved is likely to recur frequently, and its recurrence will involve a relationship between government and its citizens, or a duty of government, and upon any recurrence, the same difficulty which prevented the appeal at hand from being heard in time is likely again to prevent a decision, then the Court may find justification for deciding the issues raised by a question which has become moot, particularly if all these factors concur with sufficient weight.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]nly where the urgency of establishing a rule of future conduct in matters of important public concern is imperative and manifest, will there be justified a departure from the general rule and practice of not deciding academic questions .... [I]f the public interest clearly will be hurt if the question is not immediately decided, if the matter involved is likely to recur frequently, and its recurrence will involve a relationship between the government and its citizens, or a duty of government, and upon any recurrence, the same difficulty which prevented the appeal at hand from being heard in time is likely again to prevent a decision, then the Court may find justification for deciding the issues raised by a question which has become moot, particularly if all of these factors concur with sufficient weight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“order sought by a guardian for an incompetent ward. This Court did not decide that question of interpretation of the pre1990 version of the statute, because the case had become moot upon the death of the ward. The Attorney General considers the 1990 amendment to § 13-708 as a response to the questions raised by the circuit court in Riddlemoser. See 75 Op.Att’y Gen. at — [No. 90-044 at 41]. We note that in Riddlemoser we commented, in dicta, that “the withdrawal of respiratory life-support or a gastric feeding tube is the termination of already existing medical treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mack v. Mack · MacK v. MacK
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.