60 Md. App. 470 - Stover v. Stover’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2018
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Linkletter v. Walker · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the litigant who successfully contests a standing rule of law is denied relief because the new rule applies purely prospectively, there would be little motivation to attack settled rules of law”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hackney v. State
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.