Morrison v. Bestler’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 176 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Porter v. Com. (2008), Jau-Fei Chen v. Stewart (2004)
2 federal appellate · 176 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 Frye v. Commonwealth · Selected Risks Insurance v. Dean · Foil v. Ballinger · Barnes v. American Fertilizer Co. · Lucas v. Biller
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the other conditions of fact must exist which are demanded by the unwritten or statute law as the prerequisites of the authority of the court to proceed to judgment or decree.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [T]he Virginia General Assembly has enacted certain procedures for the prosecution of [medical malpractice claims]. These procedures include the notice of claim, a waiting period for filing suit, the right to a malpractice review panel prior to a court proceeding, use of the opinion of the panel, and extensions of statutory filing limitations under certain conditions. All these procedural requirements ... were formulated to provide the defendant with adequate notice of the nature of the claim, to assist the parties in case preparation, and to encourage settlement prior to trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“by staying the proceedings, the court denied the motion to dismiss and ordered the parties to participate in a settlement conference. Id. In Morrison , this Court ruled that the 90-day waiting period for initiating litigation, required by Code § 8.01-581.2 after giving notice of a medical malpractice claim, was a”
1 later decision 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.