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← 272 Va. 310 - Herr v. Wheeler

Herr v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2009
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jones v. Ford Motor Co. · Clohessy v. Weiler · Velocity Express Mid-Atlantic, Inc. v. Hugen · Rose v. Jaques · Mawyer v. Thomas

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

  1. “the grant of a sudden emergency instruction is rarely appropriate”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the tendency to afford a jury an easy way of avoiding instead of deciding the issue made by the evidence in the case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “use particular care when determining whether to grant”
    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.