59 Md. App. 538 - Mount v. Mount’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 64 Md. App. 487 - Rosenberg v. Rosenberg (1985), 117 Md. App. 72 - Empire Fire and Marine Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. (1997)
26 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 Harper v. Harper · Slate v. Zitomer · 58 Md. App. 158 - Gravenstine v. Gravenstine · Bledsoe v. Bledsoe · 53 Md. App. 610 - Grant v. Zich
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is important to understand that our holding in this case is a limited one. Property can produce other property in many different ways. In some instances, it may require active intervention and management by the owner or some assistance by the owner’s spouse; in other instances, nonmarital property can accrete or produce income without any effort at all on the part of the owner or the owner’s spouse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The cardinal principle of statutory construction is to determine the intent of the legislature. If the language of the statute is clear and unambiguous, then the legislative intent is determined by giving that language its normal and customary meaning. The basic rule has always been to look first to the language of the statute and to look elsewhere only if that language is unclear and ambiguous. Ryder Truck Lines v. Kennedy, 296 Md. 528, 535-36 , 463 A.2d 850 (1983) and the cases cited therein. If no ambiguity or obscurity is found in the statutory language, there is no need to look elsewhere for the legislative intent. Utt v. State, 293 Md. 271, 287 , 443 A.2d 582 (1982); Vallario v. State Roads Comm’n, 290 Md. 2, 6-7 , 426 A.2d 1384 (1981); Slate v. Zitomer, 275 Md. 534, 539 , 341 A.2d 789 (1975). (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the circumstances and facts which contributed to the estrangement of the parties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.