Bowen v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Breitenbach v. N.B. Handy Co. (2001), Murphy v. Merzbacher (1997)
2 district · 77 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 Harrison v. Montgomery County Board of Education · A.J. Decoster Co. v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · Mayor of Baltimore v. Cassidy · Lovellette v. Mayor of Baltimore · Belcher v. T. Rowe Price Foundation, Inc.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cardinal rale of statutory constmction is to ascertain and effectuate the intent of the legislature. The primary source from which to determine the intent of the legislature is the language of the statute itself. We have repeatedly noted that the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Act (hereinafter the “Act”) should be construed liberally in favor of injured workers as its provisions will permit in order to effectuate its broad remedial purpose. Any uncertainty in the law should be resolved in favor of the claimant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he cardinal rule of statutory construction is to ascertain and effectuate the intent of the Legislature,”
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.