Fletcher v. Tarasidis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Noll v. Rahal (1979), Resolution Trust Corporation v. Maplewood Investments (1994)
3 federal appellate · 17 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 Phipps v. Sutherland · Kennedy Coal Corp. v. Buckhorn Coal Corp. · Bain v. Boykin · City of Norfolk v. Stephenson · Shanahan v. Pocahontas Fuel 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But this sentence is merely the legislative device contemplated by Art. IV. § 13, Constitution of Virginia and Code § 1-12 to advance the date the emergency measure is to become operative. Whether the statute was intended to have retrospective effect is a question governed by the rules of statutory construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] litigant, successful in the trial court, [does not] acquire a vested right upon entry of the judgment; the right is inchoate and does not become vested until the judgment has been affirmed on appeal or the time allowed for appeal has expired.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reid v. Reid · Reid v. Reid“§ 8-923. Chapter not applicable to actions arising prior to July one, nineteen hundred seventy-six. — The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any cause of action which arose prior to July one, nineteen hundred seventy-six and as to which the statute of limitations had not run prior to that date, regardless of the date any suit brought thereon is filed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in actions which accrued prior to July one, nineteen hundred seventy-six, if a claimant has filed notice under § 8-912 of this chapter, his cause of action and any defense thereto shall be governed by this chapter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Armstrong v. Erasmo
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.