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← 273 Va. 184 - Harmon v. Sadjadi

Harmon v. Sadjadi’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
June 2015
most recently cited

2 district · 25 state decisions

Relationships

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

  1. “[s]tatutes relating to misjoinder and nonjoinder are not applicable in such situations, and the sole remedy is a nonsuit followed by a new action brought in the name of a proper plaintiff.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Our jurisprudence is clear that when a party without standing brings a legal action, the action so instituted is, in effect, a legal nullity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “as a foreign personal representative not qualified in Virginia, had no legal standing to file the [first] motion for judgment.”
    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.