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55 Va. App. 316 - Commonwealth v. Needham’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · 6 Va. App. 231 - Johnston-Willis, Ltd. v. Kenley · Virginia Real Estate Commission v. Bias · Yarborough v. Commonwealth · Brown v. Com.

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

  1. “focuses solely on the question whether the hearing officer's decision is contradictory to any applicable law,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “'[a] constitutional provision, statute, regulation or judicial decision.'”
    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.