63 Md. App. 220 - Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2005
20 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on Attorney General v. Anne Arundel County School Bus Contractors Ass'n · Attorney Gen. v. AA CTY. SCHOOL BUS · Fidelity-Baltimore National Bank & Trust Co. v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance · Lang v. Catterton · News American Division v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“... [TJhere remain[s] in the records of the court [an order] which pertainfs] to appellant’s being in contempt of court____ Were we to dismiss this appeal, [that order] would remain spread out among the records ... for all to see. While [it] may not ever be utilized and while [its] effect beyond mere existence is not known, and may be none, that existence, uncontradicted, gives substance to this appeal. We therefore reject the appellee’s argument of mootness____”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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