Horton v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
September 2003
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bates v. Devers · Hampton Roads Sanitation District v. City of Virginia Beach · Snead v. Bendigo
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case, the trial court rendered a default judgment in favor of Morrison in her third-party action against Horton, and no issues relating to Horton’s negligence were actually litigated. Consequently, we hold that the default judgment cannot be the basis of Morrison's claim of collateral estoppel.”) and Snead v. Bendigo, 240 Va. 399 , 397 S.E.2d 849, 851 (1990)(”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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