Mahan v. Mahan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Garay v. Overholtzer (1993), Fairbanks v. McCarter (1993)
4 district · 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 Kaliopulus v. Lumm · Maryland Naturopathic Ass'n v. Kloman · Bender v. Sec., Dep't of Personnel · 60 Md. App. 524 - Bodnar v. Brinsfield · Manders v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Persons to be Joined. — Except as otherwise provided by law, a person who is subject to service of process shall be joined as a party in the action if in the person’s absence (1) complete relief cannot be accorded among those already parties, or (2) disposition of the action may impair or impede the person’s ability to protect a claimed interest relating to the subject of the action or may leave persons already parties subject to a substantial risk of incurring multiple or inconsistent obligations by reason of the person’s claimed interest.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Person who has or claims interest as party. — (1) If declaratory relief is sought, a person who has or claims any interest which would be affected by the declaration, shall be made a party. (2) Except in a class action, the declaration may not prejudice the rights of any person not a party to the proceeding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eyler v. Eyler
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.