Lewis v. Asseff’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2003
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williamson v. Jones · Shinn v. Board of Education · Hager v. Melton · Robrecht v. Robrecht · Nichols v. Central Virginia Power Co.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[When] an injunction [is] granted by one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals [under the Virginia equivalent of W.Va. Code, 53-5-5, the judge] acts not in an appellate capacity, but as a judge of another court of co-ordinate jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an injunction granted by the appellate court, or a judge thereof in vacation, was of the same effect as a temporary injunction granted by a trial chancellor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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