10 Va. App. 653 - Conway v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 16 Va. App. 647 - Brody v. Brody (1993), 18 Va. App. 193 - Wilson v. Wilson (1994)
25 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 4 Va. App. 559 - Yohay v. Ryan · 4 Va. App. 365 - Mayhood v. Mayhood
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a family is intact, the parents’ choice of occupations and the family’s standard of living are left to the parents’ discretion as long as the children’s basic needs are met. Once the parents are separated, however, “the law of this Commonwealth allows the courts to provide for the child’s basic needs and, within reason, some measure of assumed parental generosity.” After divorce, although a parent may voluntarily terminate his or her employment, he or she may not do so to the detriment of support obligations to the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the degree to which the child should reasonably share in his or her parents’ prosperity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. May v. May
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.