35 Md. App. 399 - Rubin v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2007
22 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 First Federated Commodity Trust Corp. v. Commissioner of Securities · Miller v. Talbott · Lynch v. R. E. Tull & Sons, 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he dismissal of a. claim ... is among the gravest of sanctions, and as such, is warranted only in cases of egregious misconduct such as ‘willful or contemptuous’ behavior, ‘a deliberate attempt to hinder or prevent effective presentation of defenses or counterclaims,’ or ‘stalling in revealing one’s own weak claim or defense.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.