16 Va. App. 486 - Webb v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Grand v. Nacchio (2006), 50 F. Supp. 2d 460 - Motor City Bagels, L.L.C. v. American Bagel Co. (1999)
4 district · 24 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 Winn v. Aleda Const. Co., Inc. · Avriett v. Avriett · Nationwide Insurance v. Patterson · Wells v. Weston · 8 Va. App. 19 - Derby v. Derby
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[M]arital property settlements entered into by competent parties upon valid consideration for lawful purposes are favored in the law and such will be enforced unless their illegality is clear and certain." Cooley v. Cooley, 220 Va. 749, 752 , 263 S.E.2d 49, 52 (1980) (citation omitted); Derby v. Derby, 8 Va.App. 19, 25 , 378 S.E.2d 74, 77 (1989). Therefore, in this case, [husband] "had the burden at trial to prove by clear and convincing evidence the grounds alleged to void or rescind the agreement." Drewry v. Drewry, 8 Va.App. 460, 463 , 383 S.E.2d 12, 12 (1989).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Estoppel is the doctrine by which a `party is prevented by his own acts from claiming a right to [the] detriment of [the] other party who was entitled to rely on such conduct and has acted accordingly.”
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.