Byrum’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2023
1 district ·
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 Montagna v. Holiday Inns, Inc. · Wells v. Weston · United States v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. · Chittum v. Potter · Bangor-Punta Operations, Inc. v. Atlantic Leasing, Ltd.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under governing Virginia law, settlement agreements are treated as contracts subject to the general principles of contract interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.