54 Md. App. 614 - Campbell v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2000 · most notably 63 Md. App. 623 - First National Bank v. Shpritz (1985), 74 Md. App. 613 - Ziegler v. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (1988)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 Smith v. Shiebeck · Beall v. Beall · Chandlee v. Shockley · Hamilton v. Thirston · O'Connor v. Estevez
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.
“sufficiently clear and certain as fairly to apprise the personal representative of what the claimant[s][are] seeking.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all claims against an estate of a decedent, whether due or to become due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, founded on contract, tort, or other legal basis, are forever barred against the estate, the personal representative, and the heirs and legatees, unless presented within six months after the first appointment of a personal representative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) ... If a personal representative intends to disallow, in whole or in part, a claim that has been presented within the appropriate time and in the form prescribed in § 8-104(a) and (b) [§ 8-104(b) and (c) ], he shall mail notice to each claimant stating: (1) That the claim has been disallowed in whole or in a stated amount; or (2) That the personal representative will petition the court to determine whether the claim should be allowed. (b) ... If the claim is disallowed in whole or in a stated amount, the claimant is forever barred to the extent of the disallowance unless he files a petition for allowance in the court or commences an action against the personal representative or against one or more of the persons to whom property has been distributed. The action shall be commenced within 60 days after the mailing of notice by the personal representative. The notice shall warn the claimant concerning the time limitation.””
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.