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← 254 VA 315 - Afify v. Simmons

Afify v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 2000
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Addison v. Salyer · City of Richmond v. Sutherland · Stacy v. Mullins · Hoffman v. Stuart · Wisniewski v. Johnson

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “it was error to permit the Simmonses to amend their original claims [in CL93-3542] to increase the damages sought to amounts in excess of the jurisdictional limits of the general district court. Because the . circuit court was without jurisdiction to consider the amended claims, the trial and verdict on that pleading are nullities.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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