12 Va. App. 989 - Roane v. Roane’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 25 Va. App. 380 - Street v. Street (1997), 17 Va. App. 384 - Tart v. Commonwealth (1993)
49 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 · 4 Va. App. 224 - Price v. Price · 6 Va. App. 94 - Lambert v. Lambert · 1 Va. App. 136 - Shaughnessy v. Shaughnessy
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are bound by decisions of the Supreme Court of Virginia and are without authority to overrule [them].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The distribution anticipated by the General Assembly is predicated upon the philosophy that marriage represents an economic partnership requiring that upon dissolution each partner should receive a fair proportion of the property accumulated during marriage . . . .”
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.