34 Md. App. 41 - Ryan v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2010
2 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 Grymes v. Sanders · Shappirio v. Goldberg · Piper v. Jenkins · Blondell v. Turover · The Glendale Corp. v. Crawford
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Court cannot conceive of a conscientious title attorney . . . engaged in a transaction of this size and character [sale of house and lot for $240,000], failing to read the recorded plat of subject property preparatory to drawing the contract of sale and deed and guaranteeing the title. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the means of knowledge are at hand, and the purchaser undertakes to make an examination of the land records, he cannot say that he was deceived and injured by misrepresentations of the vendor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fireison v. Pearson“a title examiner is charged with notice of whatever appears in the land records in the chain of title to the property involved. . . . [N]otice to an attorney is notice to his client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fireison v. Pearson
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.