Bailey v. C. v. Hunter, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2010
14 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 Branford Trust Co. v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Callahan v. Connecticut General Life Insurance · Branch v. Dempsey · Kentucky Home Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Watts · Life Insurance v. Brockman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Code § 32-353.27 (b) provides in part as follows: “ £A certified copy of a certificate or any part thereof, issued in accordance with subsection (a), shall be considered for all purposes the same as the original, and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated***.’ (Emphasis supplied.) “Unquestionably the statute makes a certified copy of a death certificate issued by the State registrar of the Bureau of Vital Statistics prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. However, the language of the statute means that only facts contained in the certificate are accorded the dignity of prima facie evidence. The statute does not provide that a mere opinion or conclusion, expressed by a person signing the certificate who has no personal knowledge of the facts, shall be prima facie proof of the facts to be determined. Life Ins. Co. of Virginia v. Brockman, 173 Va. 86, 92 , 3 S. E. 2d 480, 482 .” [Citing numerous cases.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.