Rollins v. Bazile’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Ramdass v. Angelone Director Virginia Department of Corrections (2000), In Re Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections (1981)
28 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 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Bedford's Estate · County School Board of Tazewell County v. Snead · Haskins v. Haskins · King v. Hening · Weatherman v. Commonwealth
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment is the determination by a court of the rights of the parties, as those rights presently exist, upon matters submitted to it in an action or proceeding. A written order or decree endorsed by the judge is but evidence of what the court has decided.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that the writ of prohibition does not lie to correct error, but to prevent the exercise of the jurisdiction of the court by the judge to whom it is directed, either where he has no jurisdiction at all, or is exceeding his jurisdiction. If the court or judge has jurisdiction to enter order in the proceeding sought to be prohibited, the writ does not lie.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Com. · In re Johnston“Although jurisdiction of the person, or of the subject matter, may have once existed, yet, if for any cause it has been lost, the writ [of prohibition] may issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re 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.