12 Va. App. 982 - Milligan v. Milligan’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
July 2001
most recently cited
25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Featherstone v. Brooks · Lapidus v. Lapidus · Barnes v. Craig
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.
“significant variance between the guidelines and the court's prior decree.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Virginia, divorce is a creature of statutes enacted in clear, detailed language.”
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.