Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc. (1996), 179 Ill. 2d 367 - Best v. Taylor MacHine Works (1997)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Whalen v. United States · Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. · Tull v. United States · Oneida Motor Freight, Inc. v. United Jersey
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce the jury has made its findings of fact with respect to damages, it has fulfilled its constitutional function; it may not also mandate compensation as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e agree with the conclusion of the Supreme Court of Virginia [in Etheridge ] that the cap on liability bears a reasonable relation to a valid legislative purpose — the maintenance of adequate health care services in the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. Where there are two or more plaintiffs entitled to recover damages arising from the same act or acts of medical malpractice, does § 8.01-581.15 apply individually to each plaintiff or overall to two or more such plaintiffs? If the statute does apply to all or any combination of plaintiffs' claims, how is it to be apportioned among them? 2. Does § 8.01-581.15 apply to damages for the infliction of emotional distress arising from some act or acts of medical malpractice? 3. Does § 8.01-581.15 apply to an award of punitive damages for an act or acts of medical malpractice? 4. Does Virginia law allow recovery for the loss of enjoyment of life when death results from an act or acts of medical malpractice? 5. Does Virginia law allow Veronica Boyd to recover damages for her lost earning capacity based upon the evidence presented in this case? 6. What is the effect, under Va.Code Ann. §§ 8.01-21, 8.01-25, and 8.01-56, of Veronica Boyd's death after verdict but before judgment in this case?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bulala v. Boyd
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.