Napoleon v. Heard

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that Maryland law is the “source of the District’s common law and an especially persuasive authority when the District’s common law is silent”
• observing that Maryland law is “especially persuasive authority when the District’s common law is silent” because Maryland is the source of D.C. common law
• Maryland law is the “source of the District’s common law and an especially persuasive authority when the District’s common law is silent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kleinbart v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1992-03-06· cited 51×
• Chambers v. Nasa Federal Credit Union
  District of Columbia· 2016-10-21· cited 38×
• Penn Mutual Life Insurance v. Abramson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1987-09-15· cited 34×
• Potomac Plaza Terraces, Inc. v. QSC Products, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 1994-11-28· cited 34×
• In Re Estate of Chuong
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1993-03-02· cited 26×
• Little v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1998-03-12· cited 24×
• Intelect Corporation v. Cellco Partnership Gp
  District of Columbia· 2016-02-05· cited 23×
• Connecticut Pizza, Inc. v. Bell Atlantic-Washington, D.C., Inc. (In Re Connecticut Pizza, Inc.)
  D. Maryland· 1996-02-28· cited 22×
• National Telephone Cooperative Ass'n v. Exxon Corp.
  District of Columbia· 1998-11-19· cited 21×
• John Xereas v. Marjorie Heiss
  D.C. Circuit· 2021-02-16· cited 19×
• Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. v. Washington Hospital Center Corp.
  D.C. Circuit· 2014-07-18· cited 18×
• Douglas v. Lyles
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2004-01-15· cited 17×
• Gallimore v. Washington
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1995-10-23· cited 17×
• Burlington Insurance v. Okie Dokie, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2005-10-18· cited 17×
• George Washington University v. Scott
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1998-05-21· cited 16×
• Rocha v. Brown & Gould, LLP
  District of Columbia· 2015-04-30· cited 13×
• Yehuda Steiner v. American Friends of Lubavitch (Chaabad)
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2018-02-01· cited 9×
• Tmg II v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-08-13· cited 8×
• Tmg II v. United States
  District of Columbia· 1991-09-30· cited 8×
• Saylab v. Don Juan Restaurant, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2004-08-19· cited 8×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dewey v. Clark
  D.C. Circuit· 1950-02-06· cited 155×
• United States v. Lima
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1980-11-26· cited 34×
• Chase v. Jenifer
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-04-16· cited 34×
• Ross v. Lawson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-11-16· cited 23×