5 Va. App. 404 - D'ALESSIO v. Lukhard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Not eveiy person who files a protest and is given an opportunity to be heard by the administrative agency has a right to appeal from an order of the agency, but whether a particular person has the right to contest administrative action is largely a question of law, dependent upon a number of variable factors, including the nature and extent of his interest, the character of the administrative act, and the terms of the statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Norfolk Wetlands Board v. Virginia Marine Resources Commission

2. “Any person affected by and claiming the unlawfulness of any regulation, or any party aggrieved by and claiming unlawfulness of a case decision . . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Virginia State Water Control Board