52 Md. App. 488 - Hamilos v. Hamilos’s Empirical Analysis

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25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Commencing one week from the date of this agreement and each week thereafter until the death or remarriage of the wife or until two weeks following husband’s death whichever event first occurs, husband shall pay the sum of Two Hundred Seventy-five Dollars ($275.00) which sum shall be fixed and unchangeable for any reason whatever. Wife accepts this payment in lieu of any other provision or allowance for her support and maintenance. The parties hereby expressly waive the right ever hereafter to have any court change or make a different provision for the support and maintenance of wife, and they further expressly covenant and agree that under no circumstances whatever will either of them hereafter apply to any court for an increase or decrease in the amount or for a modification of the terms of such support and maintenance.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hamilos v. Hamilos

2. “"Mr. Johnston asserts that the chancellor erred, and that the case should be permitted to go to trial on Johnston’s petition because the responsive pleadings are insufficient to constitute a demurrer. What appellant, Johnston, would have us do is substitute form for substance and, thereby, subject an enrolled decree to an assault it should not have to endure. We decline to subvert the enrolled decree and submit it to the indignity of an attack such as Mr. Johnston would make. If there ever was a time when the niceties of pleadings should be ignored in the interest of a just result, this is that time.” Hamilos v. Hamilos, 52 Md. App. 488, 493 , 450 A.2d 1316, 1320 (1982). 2”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnston v. Johnston

3. “"For a period of thirty days after the entry of a judgment, or thereafter pursuant to motion filed within such period, the court shall have revisory power and control over such judgment. After the expiration of such period the court shall have revisory power and control over such judgment, only in case of fraud, mistake or irregularity.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hamilos v. Hamilos