84 Md. App. 183 - Layman v. Layman’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Savings Bank v. Ward · Flaherty v. Weinberg · 43 Md. App. 446 - Federal Land Bank of Baltimore, Inc. v. Esham · Kendall v. Rogers · Health Services Cost Review Commission v. Lutheran Hospital of Maryland, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a testamentary beneficiary (or one claiming to be an intended beneficiary) has no cause of action against the testator’s attorney for alleged negligence in drafting the will when, as in this case, the will is valid, the testamentary intent as expressed in the will has been carried out, and there is no concession of error by the attorney.” (Emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Noble v. Bruce
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.