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← 281 Va. 205 - Addison v. Jurgelsky

Addison v. Jurgelsky’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited

2 district · 28 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Barr v. Town & Country Properties, Inc. · Burns v. Board of Sup'rs of Stafford County · Mendenhall v. Douglas L. Cooper, Inc. · City of Virginia Beach v. ESG Enterprises, Inc. · Conger v. Barrett

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

  1. “[w]e look to the plain meaning of the statutory language, and presume that the legislature chose, with care, the words it used when it enacted the relevant statute.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “be brought by and in the name of the personal representative of such deceased person.”
    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.