53 Md. App. 670 - Shanks v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hunt v. Montgomery County · Staley v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Hughes v. Beltway Homes, Inc. · Baltimore Import Car Service & Storage, Inc. v. Maryland Port Authority · Wiggins v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cursory recitation of facts of this case merely listing the persistent attempts to rehash the 1975 case is sufficient for us to see that the trial judge did not abuse his discretion in awarding counsel fees for a proceeding “without substantial justification____” Our only criticism is that the system was abused so long before the court finally declared that it had had enough. Enough!”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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