39 Md. App. 1 - McAndrew v. McAndrew’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2001
19 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 Ross v. Hoffman · Davis v. Davis · Hild v. Hild · 38 Md. App. 406 - Montgomery County Department of Social Services v. Sanders · Townsend v. Townsend
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.
““At the time this Act was passed, there was no preference of either spouse in a custody proceeding, based on sex, other than the maternal preference. It was, therefore, that maternal preference, being the only sex based preference then established in the law, that the General Assembly intended to abolish. Unless the 1974 amendment had that effect, it had none at all; and we will not presume that the Legislature intended to enact a meaningless statute in so important an area. Accordingly, we conclude that, since July 1, 1974, the maternal preference has been abolished by statute in child custody cases.” 39 Md.App. at 8 , 382 A.2d 1081 (footnote omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elza v. Elza“[a] parent is no longer presumed to be clothed with or to lack a particular attribute merely because that parent is male or female.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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