Almond v. Gilmer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “It must be remembered that legislatures are ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Marable v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-06-16· cited 458×
• Pauley v. Kelly
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-02-20· cited 248×
• Winston v. City of Richmond
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-10-11· cited 79×
• Harrison v. Day
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-01-19· cited 67×
• Almond v. Gilmer
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-01-10· cited 41×
• Diggs v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-05-17· cited 33×
• Griffin v. Board of Supervisors
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1962-03-05· cited 19×
• School Board v. School Board of City of Richmond
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-08-31· cited 19×
• County School Board of Prince Edward County v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-12-02· cited 16×
• Griffin v. Board of Supervisors of Prince Edward County
  Fourth Circuit· 1963-08-12· cited 12×
• Lyons v. Norris
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2002-03-15· cited 9×
• Allen v. County School Board of Prince Edward County
  E.D. Virginia· 1962-10-10· cited 9×
• Button v. Day
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1962-08-31· cited 2×
• Carlisle v. Hassan
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-03-10· cited 2×
• Puckett v. Federated Mutual Ins.
  Roanoke County Circuit Court· 1998-04-08
• Jacob A. Marquez v. Dawn L. Marquez, Dawn L. Marquez v. Jacob A. Marquez
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2026-04-10
• Robert L. McCumber v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-06-23

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. United Mine Workers of America
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-06· cited 2,872×
• United States v. Butler
  Supreme Court· 1936-01-06· cited 823×
• Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. May
  Supreme Court· 1904-05-02· cited 237×
• Hamilton v. Rathbone
  Supreme Court· 1899-12-18· cited 184×
• Mumpower v. Housing Authority
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-11-26· cited 78×
• City of Portsmouth v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-06-17· cited 51×
• Scown v. Czarnecki
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1914-06-16· cited 50×
• Title Insurance v. Howell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-06-16· cited 34×
• Board of Supervisors v. Cox
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-01-26· cited 26×
• American-LaFrance & Foamite Industries, Inc. v. Arlington County
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-03-14· cited 25×
• Fisher v. Horicon Iron & Man. Co.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1860-01-04· cited 22×
• Fairbanks, Morse & Co. v. Town of Cape Charles
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-01-14· cited 19×
• Richmond Fairfield Railway Co. v. Llewellyn
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-03-19· cited 15×
• Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Ass'n v. Danville Warehouse Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-03-18· cited 14×
• Home Brewing Co. v. City of Richmond
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-10-11· cited 13×
• Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1928-06-14· cited 12×
• School Board v. Shockley
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1933-03-16· cited 12×
• Blake v. Marshall
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1929-06-20· cited 11×
• Morison v. Dominion National Bank
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-02-20· cited 8×