1 Va. App. 209 - Clephas v. Clephas’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2013
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hill v. Hill · Cunningham v. Smith · McDowell v. Dye · Johnson v. Merritt · Hill v. Cronin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The September order was not modified by the telephone conference on October 3 because a court may speak only through its written orders.... A judgment occurs when a court directs the clerk to enter it on the court’s order book, not when the court rules on a motion or directs counsel to prepare an order____ The September order was not modified by the October order since it could only be modified within twenty-one days after its entry. Rule 1:1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.