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← 234 Va. 15 - Thibodeau v. Vandermark

Thibodeau v. Vandermark’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 2009
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 150 W. Va. 179 - Poe v. Pittman · Jordan v. Jordan · Cowles v. Zahn · Gaines v. Campbell · Monk v. Hess

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “if reasonable persons could not disagree on the facts and inferences which may be drawn therefrom, the question whether a party's negligence creates a sudden emergency becomes a matter for decision by the court.”
    2 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.