49 Md. App. 661 - Huff v. Harbaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Morgan v. Cohen (1987), 95 Md. App. 145 - Baker, Watts & Co. v. Miles & Stockbridge (1993)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 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 Poffenberger v. Risser · Grantham v. Board of County Commissioners · Hooper v. Mougin · State Ex Rel. Cox v. Maryland Electric Railways Co. · Pemrock, Inc. v. Essco Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, when two parties have united to cause tortious harm to another[,] the “same injury” to the individual is obvious, as for example when the negligence of the driver of one car and the negligence of the driver of the second car combine to injure a passenger. In such [a] classic situation there can be no doubt as to the existence of the same “injury.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““5. The Releasors are willing to and hereby do, release the Releasees only for all past or present claims for all damages arising from said occurrence and specifically including those amounts of damage claimed by Releasors for the loss by Releasors of rental income, loss and damage to the personal property owned by the Releasors in the tavern portion of the building, damage to the concrete sidewalk, repair and relocation of the air conditioning in the tavern portion, the puncturing of the north wall, the time, expense and inconvenience in connection with the processing of the claim, certain items of cost and fees, excluding attorney’s fees, in connection therewith, in the total compromised amount of TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($25,-250.00).” “6. It is the express understanding therein that Releasors are releasing their claims against the Releasees, only, and this release and compromised amount is not intended to be, nor shall it be construed to be, a release of any insurer, insurance company or insurance agent or broker, for any failure to place or provide insurance coverage for the property, which cause of action, if any, is expressly reserved to the Releasors.” Id. at 664-65 , 435 A.2d 108 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e hold that where a wrong consists of separate and distinct, although closely related, injuries for which the parties are respectively liable, then the release of one with respect to his wrongdoing will not discharge the other from liability for his share in the transaction.”
2 later decisions 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.