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← 191 VA 43 - Sanford v. Ware

Sanford v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis

1950

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
4
states following
February 2016
most recently cited

1 district · 31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably PAPIEVES Et Ux. v. Kelly (1970), Allen v. Jones (1980)

1 district · 31 state decisions

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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 Wright v. Beardsley · Connelly v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Carless · Goldman v. Mollen · Awtrey v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “But it is universally held that where a personal tort such as that with which we are here concerned, has been committed which will support an action to recover some damages, compensation for mental suffering may be recovered in addition thereto if such suffering is a natural and probable result of the act. 191 Va. at 49 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Ramsey v. Roanoke Memorial Hospitals
  2. “Although there is no right of property in a commercial sense in the dead body of a human being, the right to bury and preserve the remains is recognized and protected as a quasi property right. 191 Va. at 48 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Ramsey v. Roanoke Memorial Hospitals
  3. “actionable, physical or pecuniary damage.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Banks v. Price

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.