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← 262 Va. 119 - Ponirakis v. Choi

Ponirakis v. Choi’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Artrip v. E.E. Berry Equipment Co. · Ring v. Poelman · Lawrence v. Wirth · Stevens v. Ford Motor Co. · Clohessy v. Weiler

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

  1. “Contributory negligence is an affirmative defense that must be proved according to an objective standard whether the plaintiff failed to act as a reasonable person would have acted for his own safety under the circumstances.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “The issue whether a plaintiff is guilty of contributory negligence is ordinarily a question of fact to be decided by the fact finder.”
    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.