White v. Bott’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2014
10 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 Railway Company v. McCarthy · West End Real Estate Co. v. Claiborne · Arwood v. Hill's Administrator · C. G. Blake Co. v. W. R. Smith & Son, Ltd. · Robinson v. Shepherd
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘When a party intends to repudiate a contract on the ground of fraud, he should do so as soon as he discovers the fraud. . . . Prompt action is essential when one believes himself entitled to a rescission of a contract.’ [citations omitted]"White v. Bott, 158 Va. 442, 448 , 158 S.E. 880, 881 (1931), quoting Finch v. Garrett, 109 Va. 114, 115 , 63 S.E. 417, 418 (1909).”
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.