33 Md. App. 541 - Hess v. Chalmers’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably 89 Md. App. 448 - Fowler v. Printers II, Inc. (1991), 75 Md. App. 214 - Legal Aid Bureau, Inc. v. Bishop's Garth Associates Ltd. Partnership (1988)
2 district · 30 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. Memphis Cotton Oil Co. · LeBrun v. Marcey · Waters v. Smith · Erie Insurance Exchange v. Lane · 25 Md. App. 68 - Davis v. Frederick County Board of Commissioners
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In an action or part of an action, if the court finds that any proceeding was had (1) in bad faith, (2) without substantial justification, or (3) for purposes of delay the court shall require the moving party to pay to the adverse party the amount of the costs thereof and the reasonable expenses incurred by the adverse party in opposing such proceeding, including reasonable attorney’s fees."”
3 later decisions 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.