16 Va. App. 98 - Barnes v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 40 Va. App. 255 - Congdon v. Congdon (2003), 29 Va. App. 673 - Anderson v. Anderson (1999)
52 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 1041
Relies on Smoot v. Smoot · 5 Va. App. 446 - Westbrook v. Westbrook · 5 Va. App. 238 - Brown v. Brown · 8 Va. App. 19 - Derby v. Derby · Rowand v. Rowand
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The husband hindered the wife’s efforts to obtain a valuation of his interest in the insurance adjuster’s business by objecting to her request for production of documents on the ground that he did not possess the business accounts. As a result, the court held an additional hearing on that issue, and the wife incurred additional costs for filing and serving another request for the production of documents on the corporate entity in order to obtain the business records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Furthermore, . . . even though the amount of marital property that is commingled with separate property may be insubstantial, if the non-owning spouse nevertheless makes significant monetary or nonmonetary contributions to the marital relationship, that contribution is sufficient to transmute what was separate business property into marital property where the owning spouse devotes his efforts throughout the marriage to working in the business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In order to find that denial of support will constitute a manifest injustice, the court must base that finding on the parties’ comparative economic circumstances and the respective degrees of fault.” Barnes v. Barnes, 16 Va.App. 98, 101-03 , 428 S.E.2d 294, 298 (1993) (emphasis in original). We italicized the word “and” in Barnes precisely because the statute makes clear that the decision must be rooted in both factors.”
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.