Beck v. Shelton

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that courts are bound by the plain meaning of statutory language
• holding that courts are bound by the plain meaning of statutory language
• “While it is not binding on this Court, an Opinion of the Attorney General is ‘entitled to due consideration.’”
• when General Assembly was aware of interpretation of statute embodied in an Opinion of the Attorney General for five years and “fail[ed] to make corrective amendments” to statute during that time, such “failure . . . evinces legislative acquiescence in the Attorney General’s view”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• George M. Epps, Sheriff of City of Petersburg, Virginia v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-03-14· cited 115×
• Coles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-12-14· cited 27×
• Stroud v. Stroud
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-02-27· cited 23×
• Hodges v. COM., DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-02-15· cited 17×
• Laws v. McIlroy
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-04-20· cited 14×
• Epps v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-07-26· cited 13×
• Cartwright v. Commonwealth Transportation Comm'r
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-06-09· cited 10×
• Hill v. Fairfax County School Bd.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-06-07· cited 9×
• Junious Pernell Bartlett v. City of Newport News Department of Human Services
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-12-20· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2018-03-01· cited 5×
• Little v. Dominion Transmission, Inc.
  W.D. Virginia· 2015-09-30· cited 5×
• Daily Press, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-05-22· cited 3×
• Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Thorsen
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2005-08-17· cited 1×
• Hill v. Fairfax County School Board
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2011-07-13· cited 1×
• Appalachian Power co. v. State Corp. Comm'n
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-11-01
• Junious P. Bartlett v. City of Newport News Department of Human Services
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-12-20
• Arete Nicole Rudolph v. City of Newport News Department of Human Services
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-12-20
• Arete N. Rudolph v. City of Newport News Department of Human Services
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-12-20
• Transparent GMU v. George Mason University
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2019-12-12
• M4 Holdings, LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company v. Lake Harmony Estates Property Owners' Association, a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation ~ Appeal of: M4 Holdings, LLC
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-08-14

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lee County v. Town of St. Charles
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-09-13· cited 56×
• Browning-Ferris, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 41×
• Twietmeyer v. City of Hampton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-02-27· cited 23×