1 Va. App. 87 - Rodriguez v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2004
21 state decisions
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 Paul v. Paul · Cutshaw v. Cutshaw · Morris v. Morris · Eaton v. Eaton · Shoosmith v. Scott
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a stipulation or contract signed by the party to whom such relief might otherwise be awarded is filed before entry of a final decree, no decree or order directing the payment of support and maintenance for the spouse, suit money, or counsel fee or establishing or imposing any other condition or consideration, monetary or nonmonetary, shall be entered except in accordance with that stipulation or contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“expressly permit[s] [the court] to incorporate selected provisions of the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not mandate the court to incorporate the agreement in whole”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.