61 Md. App. 122 - Dent v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 82 Md. App. 183 - Broseus v. Broseus (1990), Maryland-National Capital Park v. Crawford (1986)
2 district · 86 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 31 Cal. 3d 637 - In Re Marriage of Flaherty · Gary Aircraft Corp. v. United States · Hall v. State · Empire Realty Co. v. Fleisher · 55 Cal. App. 3d 827 - Young v. Redman
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ree access to the courts is an important and valuable aspect of an effective system of jurisprudence, and a party possessing a colorable claim must be allowed to assert it without fear of suffering a penalty more severe than that typically imposed on defeated parties.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he better practice in most cases would be to determine [attorney’s fees] before judgment becomes final on the case in chief, in order to avoid successive appeals. We recognize, of course, that in certain cases the issues relating to attorney’s fees may be more time consuming and more complex than the case that gives them birth. Indeed, the decision of the appellate court on the matters in chief may even vitiate the basis for an award of counsel fee. Under those and possibly other circumstances, it may be wiser for the trial judge to defer determining the issue of attorney’s fees until after completion of the appellate process. This we leave to the sound discretion of our trial judges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 1-341 represents a limited exception to the general rule that attorney’s fees are not recoverable by one party from an opposing party. It is intended to prevent parties and lawyers from abusing the judicial process by filing or defending actions and proceedings “without substantial justification” or “in bad faith”. It is not intended to punish legitimate advocacy. (Emphasis in original)”
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.