Powers v. Cherin’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2017
14 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 Fox v. Deese · Elliott v. Shore Stop, Inc. · Corbett v. Clarke · Riverside Cotton Mills v. Lanier · Washington v. Williams
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adopted at the same time to grant a party asserting any claim or defense the right to join alternative claims or defenses, that is, to present alternative statements of the facts or alternative legal theories. Revision of Title 8 of the Code of Virginia, Report of the .'Virginia Code Commission to The Governor and The General Assembly of Virginia, 1 House & Senate Documents, H. Doc. No. 14 at 185, 191 (1977). Both enactments are conditioned, however, upon the requirement that the claims j oined must “arise out of the same transaction or occurrence,” statutory language so plain and unambiguous that it requires no interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]oth enactments are conditioned ... upon the requirement that the claims joined must 'arise out of the same transaction or occurrence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may plead alternative facts and theories of recovery ... provided that such claims ... arise out of the same transaction or occurrence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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