Irvin v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
October 1998
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Locke v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Caudill v. Wise Rambler, Inc. · Farley v. Goode · Hawks v. DeHart
Most-quoted passages
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“The Court is mindful that the inherent unfairness of [this] rule is most apparent in cases of latent negligence such as this. However, it is equally obvious that federal district courts are expected to follow rather than disrupt the existing law in this Circuit. For reasons unknown to the Court, the Virginia Legislature has spurned a general • discovery rule adopted in numerous jurisdictions [ ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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