91 Md. App. 21 - Kennedy v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. “Although the [Supreme] Court noted that the State need not make extraordinary efforts to locate an unnamed party, the assumption that the address of this known party ‘could have been ascertained by reasonably diligent efforts’ rendered constructive notice insufficient for constitutional purposes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 91 Md. App. 668 - Scott v. Seek Lane Venture, Inc.

2. “[A]ppellants knew the name of the property owner. Moreover, they knew the address they had was a “bad address.” Had appellants completed a title search in accordance with generally accepted standards of title examination, they would have discovered appellees’ correct address.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 112 Md. App. 163 - Nichol v. Howard

3. “[njotice by mail or other means as certain to ensure actual notice is a minimum constitutional precondition to a proceeding which will adversely affect the liberty or property interest of any party ... if its name and address are reasonably ascertainable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 91 Md. App. 668 - Scott v. Seek Lane Venture, Inc.