Commonwealth v. Millsaps’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Yarborough v. Commonwealth (1994), Oden v. Salch (1989)
2 district · 33 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 O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Griffin v. Shively · 151 W. Va. 243 - Korzun v. Shahan · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Crouch · Pearson v. Canada Contracting Co., Inc.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it has not been the policy of the law of Virginia to facilitate litigation by such public officers as a means of compensating them for injuries received in the line of duty, but rather to impose that burden on the public generally, through workers' compensation and other benefits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“risk inherently involved in the normal pursuit”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]ersons are held justified in assuming greater risks in the protection of human life than would be sustained under other circumstances. Sentiments of humanity applaud the act, the law commends it, and, if not extremely rash and reckless, awards the rescuer redress for injuries received, without weighing with technical precision the rules of contributory negligence or assumption of risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kimble v. Carey
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.