Nelson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Adkins v. Dixon (1997), O'CONNELL v. Bean (2002)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 Coppola v. Commonwealth · Comptroller Ex Rel. Virginia Military Institute v. King · Valley Landscape Co. v. Rolland · Stanley v. Zant · Bly v. Rhoads
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“testified concerning the standard of care expected of an architect in resolving [proposed change orders]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the total costs of the [change orders] was [sic] disproportionate to the contingency set aside”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“At that time, the architects had a right to demand and received payment”
1 later decision 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.