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← 278 Va. 602 - Grattan v. Com.

Grattan v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

61
cited by 61 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

61 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Koon v. United States · Dusky v. United States · Washington v. Texas · Taylor v. Illinois

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

  1. “`fairly supports the [circuit] court's action'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “`[trial] court by definition abuses its discretion when it makes an error of law. . . . The abuse-of-discretion standard includes review to determine that the discretion was not guided by erroneous legal conclusions.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “'Only when reasonable jurists could not differ can we say an abuse of discretion has occurred.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.