Dodds v. Shamer’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Price v. State (2003), Fraternal Order of Police, Montgomery County Lodge No. 35 v. Mehrling (1996)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 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 American Trading Transportation Co. v. Escobar · Deering v. Deering · Amalgamated Casualty Insurance v. Helms · Slate v. Zitomer · Unkle v. Unkle
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mr. Dodds has also contended that the liquor license seized from Harford Road Liquors was not his property and, therefore, could not be executed upon to satisfy his personal debt. The record of the proceedings in the circuit court is insufficient to permit us to reach a determination on this contention. Accordingly, we remand to the circuit court for proceedings consistent with the Maryland Rules to determine the ownership of the license.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) License not property.—Licenses issued under provisions of this article shall not be regarded as property or as conferring any property rights. All such licenses shall be subject to suspension, restriction or revocation and to all rules and regulations that may be adopted as herein provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any holder of a license under this article, including a receiver or trustee for the benefit of creditors, may be permitted to transfer the holder’s place of business to some other location or sell or assign the license and transfer the holder’s stock in trade to another person----”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.