Linney v. Normoyle’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2018
1 federal appellate · 12 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 State v. Abraham · Vail v. Jacobs · Briggs v. Briggs · Rohrer v. Strickland · Meyer v. Jefferson Insurance
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Linney v. Normoyle, 145 Va. 589, 134 S.E. 554, 555 (1926). 15 When a trustee is faced with the question as to what is his duty in regard to an adjournment of a sale, we do not think that the criterion should be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the price obtained for property at a trustee's sale is so grossly inadequate as to shock the conscience of the chancellor, the sale will be set aside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there is no bidder present except the creditor,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.