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← 264 Va. 116 - Polyzos v. Cotrupi

Polyzos v. Cotrupi’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
May 2012
most recently cited

2 district · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Dickerson v. Fatehi · Raines v. Lutz · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Lipscomb · Lambert v. Downtown Garage, Inc. · Austin v. Shoney's, Inc.

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

  1. “That standard requires the trial court to accept as true all the evidence favorable to the plaintiff as well as any reasonable inference a jury might draw therefrom which would sustain the plaintiffs cause of action. The trial court is not to judge the weight and credibility of the evidence, and may”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “without the assistance of expert testimony.”
    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.