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← 293 Va. 497 - Gelber v. Glock

Gelber v. Glock’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Beck v. Prupis · Josephine Throckmorton v. Washington Holt · 164 Ill. 2d 54 - Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. · Commercial Business Systems, Inc. v. BellSouth Services, Inc. · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. O'NEAL

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

  1. “When ruling on a motion to strike the plaintiff's evidence, the circuit court must 'accept as true all the evidence favorable to the plaintiff as well as any reasonable inference a jury might draw therefrom which would sustain the plaintiff's cause of action.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The gist of the civil action of conspiracy is the damage caused by the acts committed in pursuance of the formed conspiracy and not the mere combination of two or more persons to accomplish an unlawful purpose or use unlawful means.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[a] common law conspiracy consists of two or more persons combined to accomplish, by some concerted action, some criminal or unlawful purpose or some lawful purpose by a criminal or unlawful means.”
    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.