Eppes v. Eppes’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2015
16 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 Cullop v. Leonard · Roark v. Shelton · Eppes v. Eppes
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a comprehensive term, which includes in its meaning any development whereunder work is done and money expended with reference to the future benefit or enrichment of the premises. Cullop v. Leonard, 97 Va. 256 , 33 S.E. 611 ; 20 Words and Phrases, Perm. Ed., p. 313. No special emphasis should be placed on the word”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The conclusions of a commissioner, where the evidence has been taken in his presence, should be sustained unless it plainly appears that they are contrary to the law, unsupported by the evidence, or not warranted by any reasonable view of the evidence. If the evidence is competent and substantial, the court does not have the arbitrary power to overturn the conclusions of fact based thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howell v. Howell
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.