Sheets v. Castle’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Armstrong v. Commonwealth (2002), Ulloa v. Qsp, Inc. (2006)
4 federal appellate · 56 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wright v. West · Clay v. Commonwealth · Transcontinental Insurance v. RBMW, Inc. · Lansdowne Development Co. v. Xerox Realty Corp.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a substantial constitutional question as a determinative issue or matters of significant precedential value” (Code §§ 17.1-410 and -411), the refusal of a petition for appeal constitutes a decision on the merits. And, a “decision on the merits”—including the denial of a petition of appeal—has precedential value, as long as”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e need not go farther than Black's Law Dictionary for its common meaning: `A party in whose favor a judgment is rendered, regardless of the amount of damages awarded.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the grounds upon which the [denial] is based [are] discernable from the four corners of the ... order, the denial carries no precedential value”
2 later decisions 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.