11 Va. App. 13 - Stainback v. Stainback’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Medlock v. Medlock (2002), 26 Va. App. 195 - Sara Rahbaran v. Kamran Rahbaran (1997)
34 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 Smoot v. Smoot · 5 Va. App. 238 - Brown v. Brown · 1 Va. App. 385 - Rexrode v. Rexrode · Jacobs v. Jacobs · Haynes v. Glenn
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To allow general conversation between husband and wife to constitute an `agreement' between the parties, without more, is to turn the institution of marriage into an ongoing contract, the terms of which are mandated by each word spoken between the spouses.”
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.