78 Md. App. 23 - Runge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2003
13 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Kaczorowski v. Mayor of Baltimore · United States v. Hickman · Resetar v. State Board of Education
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as otherwise provided in Title 5, Subtitle 7 of the Family Law Article,[ 3 ] all records and reports concerning child abuse or neglect are confidential, and their unauthorized disclosure is a criminal offense subject to the penalty set out in subsection (e) of this section. Information contained in reports or records concerning child abuse or neglect may be disclosed only: (1) Under a court order; * # sjt * * (4) To a person who is the alleged child abuser or the person who is suspected of child neglect if that person is responsible for the child’s welfare and provisions are made for the protection of the reporter or any other person whose life or safety is likely to be endangered by disclosing the information; * * * * sjc * (6) To a parent or other person who has permanent or temporary care and custody of a child, if provisions are made for the protection of the identity of the reporter or any other person whose life or safety is likely to be endangered by disclosing the information.[ 4 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Runge“entitled to the information in the records and reports in the [DSS] file by virtue of subsection 6(b)(4) [of Article 88A]____ Pursuant to that subsection, the extent of appellant’s entitlement is clear: disclosure of the information contained in reports and records concerning child abuse. This being so, the only basis for court intervention is to determine [Runge’s] entitlement and to ensure that the sources of the information are safeguarded; court intervention to determine the extent of the disclosure of the information is not only unwarranted, but not permitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Runge
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.