Velez v. Tuma’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Legislature is deemed to act with an understanding of common law in existence before the legislation was enacted. Moreover, statutes in derogation of the common law must be strictly construed, and will not be extended by implication to abrogate established rules of common law. In other words, where there is doubt regarding the meaning of such a statute, it is to be given the effect which makes the least rather than the most change in the common law.”
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.