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← 269 Va. 374 - Forbes v. Rapp

Forbes v. Rapp’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on John v. Wong Shik Im · Tarmac Mid-Atlantic, Inc. v. Smiley Block Co. · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Dungee · ITT Hartford Group, Inc. v. Virginia Financial Associates, Inc. · Lawrence v. Wirth

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

  1. “Expert opinion may be admitted to assist the fact finder if such opinion satisfies certain requirements, 'including the requirement of an adequate factual foundation.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “An assertion that an injured party has failed to mitigate damages is an affirmative defense”
    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.