Meyer v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2019
24 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 Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Williams · Gomes v. City of Richmond
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the venue for any action shall be deemed proper only if laid in accordance with the provisions of §§ 8.01-261 and 8.01-262 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“will not be reversed on appeal unless the record affirmatively reflects an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An objection to venue is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.