10 Va. App. 1 - Blank v. Blank’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 10 Va. App. 728 - Srinivasan v. Srinivasan (1990), 24 Va. App. 190 - Moreno v. Moreno (1997)
52 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 Davis v. Alaska · 360 So. 2d 1244 - Miles v. State · Carlson v. Carlson · 1 Va. App. 272 - McGinnis v. McGinnis · Smoot v. Smoot
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless it appears from the record that the trial judge has abused his discretion, that he has not considered or has misapplied one of the statutory mandates, or that the evidence fails to support the findings of fact underlying his resolution of the conflict in the equities, the equitable distribution award will not be reversed on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Code § 20-107.1 provides that the trial court, in its discretion, may decree that maintenance and support of a spouse be made in periodic payments, or in a lump sum award, or both. The exercise of the trial judge’s discretion will not be disturbed upon appeal unless it has been exceeded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“With regard to how the court shall fashion an award of spousal support, the law’s aim is to provide a sum for such period of time as needed to maintain the spouse in the manner to which the spouse was accustomed during the marriage, balanced against the other spouse’s ability to pay.”
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.