Jordan v. Shands

How courts have described this case

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

• holding when plaintiff brought a defamation action against police officer for statements made in connection with her wrongful arrest, cause of action accrued on the date of the alleged defamation rather than the date on which the charges against her were dismissed
• dismissing intentional infliction of emotional distress claim when “the plaintiffs allegations [were] merely conclusional”
• plaintiff’s defamation claim barred by one-year statute of limitations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Delk v. Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-01-14· cited 141×
• Almy v. Grisham
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2007-01-12· cited 112×
• Figg v. Schroeder
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-12-03· cited 112×
• Steven J. Hatfill v. The New York Times Company, and Nicholas Kristof
  Fourth Circuit· 2005-07-28· cited 103×
• Unus v. Kane
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-05-06· cited 100×
• Andrews v. Ring
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-09-12· cited 88×
• Ogunde v. Prison Health Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2007-06-08· cited 57×
• Katz v. Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C.
  E.D. Virginia· 2004-08-26· cited 50×
• Guidry v. Clare
  E.D. Virginia· 2006-08-10· cited 48×
• McDermott v. Reynolds
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-09· cited 31×
• Daniczek v. Spencer
  E.D. Virginia· 2016-01-11· cited 21×
• Bikachi Amisi v. Lakeyta Brooks
  Fourth Circuit· 2024-02-22· cited 21×
• Lewis v. Gupta
  E.D. Virginia· 1999-06-03· cited 20×
• Harbeck v. Smith
  E.D. Virginia· 2011-08-30· cited 18×
• Vollette v. Watson
  E.D. Virginia· 2013-04-01· cited 18×
• Davis v. Bacigalupi
  E.D. Virginia· 2010-04-29· cited 14×
• Beckett v. Bundick (In Re Bundick)
  E.D. Virginia· 2003-12-17· cited 12×
• Davis v. Wal-Mart Stores East, L.P.
  E.D. Virginia· 2016-04-13· cited 3×
• Young v. City of Norfolk
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2003-07-17· cited 3×
• Pleasants v. Town of Louisa
  W.D. Virginia· 2012-03-12· cited 2×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Womack v. Eldridge
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-12-02· cited 328×
• Caudill v. Wise Rambler, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-06-16· cited 119×
• Westminster Investing Corp. v. Lamps Unlimited, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-04-21· cited 67×
• W. T. Grant Co. v. Owens
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1928-03-02· cited 66×
• DeChene v. Smallwood
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-01-20· cited 48×
• Gillingham v. Ohio River Railroad
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1891-12-12· cited 47×
• Ely v. Whitlock
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-11-10· cited 46×