Sunrise Continuing Care, LLC v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably DUNN CONST. CO. v. Cloney (2009), Winforge, Inc. v. Coachmen Industries, Inc. (2012)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kamlar Corp. v. Haley · Filak v. George · Wright v. Everett · Shepherd v. Davis · Bitar v. Rahman
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`burden of proving with reasonable certainty the amount of damages and the cause from which they resulted; speculation and conjecture cannot form the basis of the recovery.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here the trial court has declined to strike the plaintiff's evidence or to set aside a jury verdict, the standard of appellate review in Virginia requires this Court to consider whether the evidence presented, taken in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, was sufficient to support the jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Damages that are contingent, speculative, and uncertain are not recoverable because they cannot be established with reasonable certainty.”
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.