7 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 40 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Myers v. Kayhoe.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Myers v. Kayhoe Anchor | green | “even in the absence of a contract term limiting recovery to reasonable fees, trial courts are required to read such a term into the contract and examine the prevailing party's fee request for reasonableness.” | 10 |
| 2 | Myers v. Kayhoe | green | “contract provisions providing for awards of attorney's fees to the prevailing party in litigation under the contract generally are valid and enforceable in maryland.” | 8 |
| 3 | Rauch v. McCall | green | “the services performed, by whom they were performed, the time expended thereon, and the hourly rates charged.” | 5 |
| 4 | Rauch v. McCall | green | “without such records, the reasonableness, vel non, of the fees can be determined only by conjecture or opinion of the attorney seeking the fees and would therefore not be supported by competent evidence.” | 5 |
| 5 | Monmouth Meadows Homeowners Ass'n v. Hamilton | green | “should use the factors set forth in rule 1.5 of the maryland rules of professional conduct ("mrpc” | 5 |
| 6 | Monmouth Meadows Homeowners Ass'n v. Hamilton | green | “courts must routinely undertake an inquiry into the reasonableness of any proposed fee before settling on an award.” | 4 |
| 7 | Suntrust Bank v. Goldman | green | “current law allows a court to grant only those attorney's fees it finds reasonable.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.