Russo v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 20 district · 191 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 369 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Delk v. Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. (2000), Harris v. Kreutzer (2006)
18 federal appellate · 20 district · 191 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 Womack v. Eldridge · Fox v. Custis · Naccash v. Burger · Ruth v. Fletcher · Ely v. Whitlock
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 369 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage“nervousness, sleeplessness, stress and its physical symptoms”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Property'*) at all times relevant to this case was in the name of Frances M McIntosh as life tenant and Doris J. Combs as the remainderman. In 1989 the Property was improved by a dwelling which had not been occupied for over ten years and had fallen into an advanced state of disrepair. On August 17, 1989, Michael A. Webber, City Engineer for the City of Winchester, Virginia, sent McIntosh a letter by certified mail, which she received, advising McIntosh that the property had been inspected and found to be unsafe and in violation of the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code and was to be demolished. The City received no response to the August 17, 1989, letter to McIntosh, and on January 8 and 9, 1990, the City demolished the dwelling and graded the property. Remainderman Combs has sued the City and Webber in this action for damages for the demolition of the dwelling claiming that the notice which the City gave McIntosh was legally inadequate as no notice as given to her of the proposed demolition pursuant to provisions of the building code. II. Conclusions of Law The Court considered the plaintiff’s allegations according to "the settled rule that a demurrer admits the truth of all well-pleaded material facts. All reasonable inferences fairly and justly drawn from the facts alleged must be considered in aid of the pleading.”
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.