Stratton v. Stratton’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 4 Va. App. 326 - Graves v. Graves · 5 Va. App. 446 - Westbrook v. Westbrook · 15 Va. App. 395 - Alphin v. Alphin · 9 Va. App. 1 - Bosserman v. Bosserman · 10 Va. App. 580 - Clements v. Clements
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All property including that portion of pensions, profit-sharing or deferred compensation or retirement plans of whatever nature, acquired by either spouse during the marriage, and before the last separation of the parties, if at such time or thereafter at least one of the parties intends that the separation be permanent, is presumed to be marital property in the absence of satisfactory evidence that it is separate property.”
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.