Bostic v. Whited’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably Yarborough v. Commonwealth (1994), Alaska Placer Company v. Lee (1976)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Acme Markets., Inc. v. Remschel · Brann v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · Ross v. Schneider · French v. Stange Mining Co. · Jones v. Old Dominion Cotton Mills
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under these circumstances it is the practice of appellate courts to consider the record and to pass upon errors in the order committed, and to reverse the judgment of the trial court for material error not waived whereby the party appealing is aggrieved. This is done without looking into subsequent proceedings. Jones v. Old Dominion Cotton Mills, 82 Va. 140 , 3 Am. St. Reports 92. Thus if it is discovered that the court erred in setting aside the verdict in the first trial either because of the mistaken belief that the verdict was contrary to the evidence or for some other supposed error committed, the appellate court will annul the proceedings subsequent to the first verdict and enter judgment on it. I M. J., Appeal and Error, § 282, pp. 714, 715; Burks Pleading and Practice, 4th Ed., §427, pp. 834, 835; Brann v. F. W. Woolworth Co., 181 Va. 213 , 24 S. E. 2d 424 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simmons v. Boyd · Judge v. Burton
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.