38 Md. App. 479 - State v. Rawlings’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2002
2 district · 10 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 Mathews v. Lucas · Police Commissioner v. Dowling · Wheeler v. State · State v. Grady · State v. Moran
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“legitimation provision [although contained in an inheritance statute] is not limited in its scope and application to matters of inheritance ... such a procedure should certainly be of sufficient legal validity to establish other rights, ofttimes inferior to that of inheritance, arising from the relationship existing between parent and legitimate issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Jurisdiction of courts of equity. — A court of equity has jurisdiction over the custody, guardianship, legitimation, maintenance, visitation and support of a child In exercising its jurisdiction, the court may: (2) Determine the legitimacy of a child, pursuant to § 1-208 of the Estates and Trusts Article of this Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Califano
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.