81 Md. App. 338 - Kelley v. Dowell’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The court now comes to the Ex Parte Order. There was not the slightest evidence in this case that an emergency existed in June of ’88 or at the time this Order was signed. What Judge Burns heard and considered is unknown to me, but what happened from the evidence in this case was clearly wrong and unjustified____ The court feels that all things that have eminated (sic) from that Ex Parte Order were uncalled for, unsupported by the evidence and done wrong.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 89 Md. App. 81 - Beery v. Maryland Medical Laboratory, Inc.

2. ““Maryland Rule 1-341 is not, and never was intended, to be used as a weapon to force persons who have a questionable or innovative cause to abandon it because of a fear of the imposition of sanctions____ No one who avails himself or herself of the right to seek redress in a Maryland court of law should be punished merely for exercising that, right.” (citation omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 90 Md. App. 75 - Black v. Fox Hills North Community Ass'n

3. “Although a finding of bad faith does not necessarily involve an examination of the merits of the case, a finding that a cause of action was brought or maintained without substantial justification does require such an examination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 89 Md. App. 81 - Beery v. Maryland Medical Laboratory, Inc.