Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 357 · 1976
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably In Re Diana R Beard et Als, In re Beard (1987)
40 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Holland · La Buy v. Howes Leather Co. · Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · Will v. United States · Colonial Times, Inc. v. Gasch
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He knows that ... his spouse . . . has a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the proceeding, or any other interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding. . . . ””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘financial interest’ means ownership of a legal or equitable interest, however small. . . .””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must necessarily consider the remoteness of the interest and its extent or degree”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.