56 Md. App. 317 - Robert v. Robert’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2002
9 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 Duncan and Smith v. State · Eastgate Associates v. Apper · Biro v. Schombert · Diener Enterprises, Inc. v. Miller · Suitland Development Corp. v. Merchants Mortgage 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When more than one claim for relief is presented in an action, including a consolidated action, whether by original claim, counter-claim, cross-claim, or third-party claim, or when multiple parties are involved, or when partial judgment is sought pursuant to Rule 2-501(e), the court may direct the entry of a final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the claims or parties only if the court expressly determines that there is no just reason for delay and directs the entry of judgment. In the absence of such determination and direction, any order or other form of decision, however designated, that adjudicates fewer than all the claims or the rights and liabilities of fewer than all the parties shall not terminate the action as to any of the claims or parties and is subject to revision at any time before the entry of judgment that adjudicates all the claims and the rights and liabilities of all the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Not only must the direction for the entry of judgment be explicit, but also the determination that there is no just reason for delay must be explicit. * * * * [T]he rule by its carefully articulated mandatory language contemplates an informed determination by the trial judge that there is no reason to delay an appeal, i.e., that some purpose will be served other that permitting piecemeal appeals. Absent such express determination there is naught for us to review because our jurisdiction is wanting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under subsection (b), a trial court may order the entry of final judgment as to an entire claim or party, but less than all claims or parties, if the court in a written order makes an express determination that there is no just reason for delay. In this case, neither the order of March 18, 1986, nor any earlier order contained the trial court’s express determination of no just reason for delay. When the order of appeal was filed on March 27, 1986, there existed no appealable judgment in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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