James v. Jane’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 255 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 325 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Messina v. Burden (1984), Kassen v. Hatley (1994)
10 federal appellate · 255 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Lawhorne v. Harlan · Crabbe v. School Board and Albrite
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 325 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I agree with the result reached by the majority opinion. However, for reasons expressed in my dissent in Lawhome v. Harlan, 214 Va. 405, 408-09 , 200 S.E.2d 569, 572-73 (1973), I believe that Lawhome is inconsistent with Crabbe v. School Board and Albrite, 209 Va. 356 , 164 S.E.2d 639 (1968), is unsound, and should be forthrightly overruled rather than distinguished to extinction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.