40 Md. App. 135 - Wicks v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
September 2001
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Skyline Development Corp. · Causey v. Gray · Board of Public Works v. Larmar Corp. · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Chase · Owen v. Hubbard
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.
“the riparian owner had no right whatsoever at common law to make improvements into the water in front of his land”
1 later decision 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.