13 Va. App. 306 - Polumbo v. Polumbo’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Canova Electrical Contracting, Inc. v. LMI Insurance (1996), 19 Va. App. 389 - Erikson v. Erikson (1994)
29 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 12 Va. App. 848 - Pinkard v. Pinkard
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Any final decision of a circuit court on appeal from (i) a decision of an administrative agency ... or (4) [a]ny interlocutory decree or order entered in any of the cases listed in this section (i) granting, dissolving, or denying an injunction or (ii) adjudicating the principles of a cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to adjudicate the principles of a cause, a decree must decide an issue that “would of necessity affect the final order in the case.” Pinkard, 12 Va.App. at 851 , 407 S.E.2d at 341 . The decree must “determine the rules by which the court will determine the rights of the parties.” Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[T]he mere possibility' that an interlocutory decree `may affect the final decision in the trial does not necessitate an immediate appeal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Lewis
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.