70 Md. App. 1 - Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 89 Md. App. 448 - Fowler v. Printers II, Inc. (1991), 75 Md. App. 214 - Legal Aid Bureau, Inc. v. Bishop's Garth Associates Ltd. Partnership (1988)
32 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 58 Md. App. 386 - Sharp v. Sharp · Winkel v. Winkel · 58 Md. App. 158 - Gravenstine v. Gravenstine · Marshall v. Marshall · Crawford v. Crawford
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wife received an order from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County in 1970 requiring the husband to pay support payments in the amount of $250.00 per month. Because the attempt to recover such payments in a criminal contempt proceeding resulted in a not guilty finding in 1973, the arrearages to which this action relates are those accruing subsequent to the date of that action. There is then a child support order setting the amount of the payments due. The' statute of limitations did not begin to run as to any payment until the payment became due. And because the statute of limitations for each payment is twelve years, the arrearages that the wife could recover are those for which the twelve year statute of limitations has not yet run.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Hearn v. O'Hearn““§ 5-111. Contempt proceeding for failure to pay child or spousal support. A proceeding to hold a person in contempt of court for the person’s default in payment of periodic child or spousal support under the terms of a court order shall be commenced within 3 years of the date each installment of support became due and remained unpaid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Hearn v. O'Hearn““[t]his was not a contempt case. There was absolutely no request on the part of the wife to hold the husband in contempt for failure to make child support payments. Rather, the wife sought a judgment for child support ar rearages. The statute of limitations for contempt proceedings simply does not apply.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Hearn v. O'Hearn
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.