14 Va. App. 270 - Frey v. Frey’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Gordon v. Gordon (1996), 31 Va. App. 753 - Pellegrin v. Pellegrin (2000)
30 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. 173 - Fry v. Schwarting · 1 Va. App. 11 - Tiffany v. Tiffany · 352 Pa. Super. 432 - Miller v. Miller · 3 Va. App. 510 - Smith v. Smith · Steele v. Goettee
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a status in which a man and woman live together continuously, or with some permanency, mutually assuming duties and obligations normally attendant with a marital relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“liv[ing] together in the same house as married persons live together, or in the manner of husband and wife.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Luttrell v. Cucco“cohabit [ ] ... in a relationship analogous to a marriage”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Luttrell v. Cucco
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.