Hudnall’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2023
5 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 Singleton v. Wulff · Hormel v. Helvering · Standard Oil Co of California v. United States · Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Road · Embrey v. Holly
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We therefore hold that under Maryland law any mental deficiency suffered by Sellner at the time of the conduct for which the jury imposed tort liability would not relieve him of that liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court shall appoint a guardian ad litem for an ... incompetent person not otherwise represented ... or shall make such other order as it deems proper for the protection of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uch judgments are only voidable, on a proper showing both that the party was not properly represented and that a meritorious defense exists.”
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.