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← 237 Va. 231 - Swiney v. Overby

Swiney v. Overby’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
April 2016
most recently cited

25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Tarmac Mid-Atlantic, Inc. v. Smiley Block Co. (1995), Tittsworth v. Robinson (1996)

25 state decisions

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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 Noll v. Rahal · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Lipscomb · Grasty v. Tanner · Thorpe v. Commonwealth · Mary Washington Hospital, Inc. v. Gibson

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

  1. “[q]ualification of an expert witness does not insure admission of his every statement and opinion.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.