42 Va. App. 557 - Newman v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
67
cited by 67 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
65 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · United States v. Dixon
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a maxim not to be disregarded, that general expressions, in every opinion, are to be taken in connection with the case in which these expressions are used. If they go beyond the case, they may be respected, but ought not to control the judgment in the subsequent suit when the very point is [involved] for decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Absent a clearly expressed legislative intent otherwise, statutes should not be construed to displace long-established common law principles.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[ s]tare decisis cannot be properly applied without `the need to distinguish an opinion's holding from it's dicta. ' Dicta in a prior decision generally refers to that portion of an opinion `not essential' to the disposition of the case.”
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.