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· 1/16/2009

Hancock-Underwood v. Knight

Citations

  • 670 S.E.2d 720
  • 277 Va. 127
  • 2009 Va. LEXIS 14

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding driver who suffered acute medical crisis and lost consciousness was not entitled to sudden emergency instruction because “[t]here was no action he could take or did take”
  • “Whether the content of the instruction is an accurate statement of the relevant legal principles is a question of law that, like all questions of law [is] reviewed] de novo.”

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Judges: Donald W. Lemons

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