Reid v. Boward’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1975
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Hubbard v. Murray · Kinsey v. Brugh · Harris v. Howerton · Bristow v. Brauer · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Richmond Cedar Works
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The violation of a statute, although negligence per se, will not support a recovery for damages unless such violation proximately causes or contributes to the injury complained of.” Reid v. Boward, 1943, 181 Va. 718 , 723, 26 S.E.2d 27 , 29. 14”
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.