Clancy v. King’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 16 district · 73 state decisions

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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[e]ffect must be given to each clause so that a court will not find an interpretation which casts out or disregards a meaningful part of the language of the writing unless no other course can be sensibly and reasonably followed.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 Md. App. 668 - Hartford Underwriters Insurance v. Phoebus · Precision Small Engines, Inc. v. City of Coll. Park

2. “When the conviction is rendered after a bench trial, we review the case on both the law and the evidence. We will not set aside the judgment of the trial court on the evidence unless clearly erroneous, and will give due regard to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses. The clearly erroneous standard, however, does not, of course, apply to legal conclusions. For legal conclusions, we conduct a non-deferential review.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lowery v. State

3. “[T]he citation of unreported opinions (Maryland or otherwise) ordinarily is not appropriate.”). 30 . We find no merit to Ms. Spivery-Jones’s contention that an appeal from the order denying the motion to vacate the receivership should be permitted under Section 12-303(3)(iv) because,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Spivery-Jones v. Receivership Estate of Trans Healthcare, Inc.