Daniels v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2006
21 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 Rawle v. McIlhenny · Harlow v. Commonwealth · Twohy v. Harris · Cape Charles Flying Service, Inc. v. Nottingham · Butler v. Parrocha
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trend of Virginia decisions is to relax the strict rules of evidence in the interest of developing the whole truth on all issues. The general rule adopted gives great latitude to the discretion of the trial court as to the order in which witnesses may be called and the manner of their examination. The exercise of this discretion will not be disturbed unless it has been abused or substantial harm has been done to the complaining party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Rule 1:8 requires that the trial judge be informed of the precise points of objection in the minds of counsel so that he may rule intelligently, thereby avoiding delay and the expense incident to appeals, reversals and new trials upon grounds of objection which might have been obviated or corrected in the trial court. Therefore this rule must be adhered to unless the exceptions therein stated apply.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reil v. Commonwealth“to include, first, a party to the litigation, and, second, a person, though not a party, who has a financial or other personal interest in the outcome. Daniels v. Morris, 199 Va. 205, 211 , 98 S.E.2d 694, 698 (1957); Matthews v. Hicks, 197 Va. 112, 122 , 87 S.E.2d 629, 635 (1955); Butler v. Parrocha, 186 Va. 426, 431 , 43 S.E.2d 1, 4 (1947). A nonparty witness does not have an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weller v. Com.
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.