Potts v. Flippen’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1993
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Tyson v. Scott · Hartman v. Strickler · Culpeper National Bank v. Morris · Ross Cutter & Silo Co. v. Rutherford · Nethers v. Nethers
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * we deem it sufficient to say that for more than one hundred years it has been settled law in this State, that when a bill is filed tmder provisions of Code, section 5259 (Va.Ann. Code 64-81, 84, 85), the jurisdiction of the court is limited to try the single issue, devisavit vei non, and when that issue has been duly determined, the jurisdiction of the court in such suit is ended.””
2 later decisions 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.