12 Va. App. 691 - Alexander v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 13 Va. App. 151 - Watkinson v. Henley (1991), 12 Va. App. 1245 - Scott v. Scott (1991)
29 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. 326 - Graves v. Graves · Featherstone v. Brooks · 12 Va. App. 18 - Richardson v. Richardson · Carswell v. Masterson · 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the amount of child support is in dispute, in spite of a prior agreement, the trial court must address "the issue of determining child support." Code § 20-108.1. Consequently, it must do so in accord with Code §§ 20-108.1 and 20-108.2 and must, therefore, first determine the presumptive amount of child support in accordance with Code § 20-108.2. Once the presumptive amount is determined, the trial court may deviate from the presumptive amount if such deviation is justified by factors recognized in Code §§ 20-108.1 and 20-107.2. These factors may be reflected in provisions in the separation agreement which may, therefore, be the basis for deviating from the guidelines.”
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.