Kirby v. Fulbright’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2005
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 Scott v. Simms · Lovette v. Lloyd · Lovette v. Lloyd · Jefferson Hospital, Inc. v. Van Lear · Essick v. City of Lexington
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.
““The substantive rights and liabilities of the parties are to be determined in accordance with the laws of Virginia, the lex loci. Procedural matters are to be determined in accordance with the law of North Carolina, the lex fori. Nix v. English, 254 N.C. 414, 419 , 119 S.E. 2d 220 , and cases cited; Knight v. Associated Transport, 255 N.C. 462, 464 , 122 S.E. 2d 64 ; Frisbee v. West, 260 N.C. 269, 271 , 132 S.E. 2d 609 . G.S. 8-4 requires that we take judicial notice of the pertinent Virginia law. Whether, under the substantive law of Virginia, the evidence was sufficient to require its submission to the jury is determinable in accordance with the procedural law of this jurisdiction.””
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.