39 Md. App. 106 - Erlewine v. Happ’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2013
4 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 Heckrotte v. Riddle · Freeman v. Stanbern Construction Co. · Kendall v. Rogers · Westpark, Inc. v. Seaton Land Co. · Gilbert Construction Co. v. Gross
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A covenant by a grantor in a deed, ‘that he will warrant specially the property hereby granted,’ has the same effect as if the grantor had covenanted that he will warrant forever and defend the property to the grantee against any lawful claim and demand of the grantor and every person claiming or to claim by, through, or under him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillow v. Magraw
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.