Verzi v. Baltimore County’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Dua v. Comcast Cable of Maryland, Inc. (2002), Gilchrist v. State (1995)
51 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 City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York · Zobel v. Williams · Department of Revenue of Montana v. Ranch
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e invalidated, under the equal protection component of Article 24, a Baltimore County regulation imposing a “location requirement” for licensed tow truck operators who are called by the police to tow vehicles which have become disabled. Under the regulation, whenever police in Baltimore County were requested to call a tow truck operator for a disabled vehicle, the police were required to call upon an operator whose place of business was located in Baltimore County.... Judge Karwacki stated for the Court [that] ... “we have ... required that a legislative classification rest upon ‘some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER ARTICLE 24 Article 24 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights provides: That no man ought to be taken or imprisoned or disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or, in any manner, destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or by the Law of the land.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In areas of economic regulation, as we have discussed, this Court has been particularly distrustful of classifications which are based solely on geography, i.e., treating residents of one county or city differently from residents of the remainder of the State.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.