Workers' Compensation Commission v. Driver’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Schisler v. State (2006), Sanza v. Maryland State Board of Censors (1967)
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 United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · Baskett v. United States · Brody v. Guercio · Cass v. United States · Ohse v. Hughes
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The General Assembly is presumed to be aware of this Court’s interpretation of its enactments and, if such inter pretation is not legislatively overturned, to have acquiesced in that interpretation. Harden v. Mass Transit Adm., 277 Md. 399, 406 , 354 A.2d 817 (1976). This presumption is particularly strong whenever, after statutory language has been interpreted by this Court, the Legislature re-enacts the statute without changing in substance the language at issue. Harbor Island Marina v. Calvert Co., 286 Md. 303, 322-323 , 407 A.2d 738 (1979); Director v. Cash, 269 Md. 331, 345 , 305 A.2d 833 (1973) cert. denied sub nom. Vucci v. Boslow, Director, Patuxent Institution, 414 U.S. 1136 , 94 S.Ct. 881 , 38 L.Ed.2d 762 (1974); Macke Co. v. St. Dep't of Assess. & Taxation, 264 Md. 121, 132-133 , 285 A.2d 593 (1972); Stack v. Marney, 252 Md. 43, 49 , 248 A.2d 880 (1969). Under these circumstances, it is particularly inappropriate to depart from the principle of stare decisis and overrule our prior interpretation of the statute. White v. Prince George’s Co., 282 Md. 641, 657-658 , 387 A.2d 260 (1978). See also Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 , 92 S.Ct. 2099 , 32 L.Ed.2d 728 (1972).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well-settled that when the judiciary reviews a statute or other governmental enactment, either for validity or to determine the legal effect of the enactment in a particular situation, the judiciary is ordinarily not concerned with whatever may have motivated the legislative body or other governmental actor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a judiciary must judge by results, not by the varied factors which may have determined legislators' votes. We cannot undertake a search for motive”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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