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← 266 Va. 269 - Honsinger v. Egan

Honsinger v. Egan’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
July 2017
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Blondel v. Hays · Whaley v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Vaughn · Poliquin v. Daniels · Northern Virginia Power Co. v. Bailey

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. “[W]hen, as here, the defendant asserts the possibility of another cause for the plaintiff's injuries, the plaintiff's burden remains that of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant's acts were a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “In a civil trial, the burden is on the parties to furnish the trial court with proper and appropriate instructions that address their respective theories of the case.”
    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.