59 Md. App. 462 - Slack v. Villari’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 69 Md. App. 342 - Pahanish v. Western Trails, Inc. (1986), Atlantic Mutual Insurance v. Kenney (1991)
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 Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.), Inc. · Aravanis v. Eisenberg · Volkswagen of America, Inc. v. Young · Bramble v. Thompson · 302 Pa. Super. 235 - Miller v. Hurst
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order for the violation of a statute [or ordinance] to be evidence of negligence, that violation must result in an injury to a member of the class the statute [or ordinance] was designed to protect and the injury sustained must be the type which the statute [or ordinance] was intended to prevent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The standard for determining whether a directed verdict should be granted is extremely strict. 'A directed verdict is inappropriate where there is any legally relevant and competent evidence, however slight, from which a rational mind could infer a fact which if found to exist would prevent judgment for the moving party.’ Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.) Inc., 283 Md. 296, 328-29 , 389 A.2d 887, 905-06 (1978). Nonetheless, there are circumstances in which the directed verdict is appropriate. As we recently stated in Cavalier Mob. Homes v. Liberty Homes, 53 Md.App. 379 , 454 A.2d 367 , cert. denied, 295 Md. 736 (1983): Whenever the facts, and any rational inferences which-may be drawn from them, point so strongly toward the non-existence of an essential element of a party’s cause of action or defense that no reasonable man could find for its existence, the appropriate level of non-persuasion has been reached and a directed verdict is proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Except for animal trespass, one who possesses or harbors a domestic animal that he does not know or have reason to know to be abnormally dangerous, is subject to liability for harm done by the animal if, but only if, (a) he intentionally causes the animal to do the harm, or (b) he is negligent in failing to prevent the harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.