Cofield v. Nuckles’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably CARSON BY MEREDITH v. LeBlanc (1993), 47 Va. App. 168 - Logan v. Commonwealth (2005)
2 district · 37 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 Orloff v. Willoughby · Glanzer v. . Shepard · Bridges v. United States · Tuggle v. Commonwealth · Central Railroad v. Department of Public Utilities
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]t is ancient learning that one who assumes to act, even though gratuitously, may thereby become subject to the duty of acting carefully, if he acts at all.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A party can concede the facts but cannot concede the law.”
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.