Oraee v. Breeding’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Selected Risks Insurance v. Dean · Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Board of County Supervisors · Pulliam v. Coastal Emergency Services of Richmond, Inc. · Halifax Corp. v. First Union National Bank · Williams v. Commonwealth
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`duty ... to interpret the several parts of a statute as a consistent and harmonious whole so as to effectuate the legislative goal.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e presume that the legislature chose, with care, the words it used when it enacted the statute. Courts cannot add language to the statute the General Assembly has not seen fit to include.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)). 2 . Code § 18.2-371.1(B)(1) provides:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.