17 Va. App. 81 - Crabtree v. Crabtree’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 23 Va. App. 21 - Orlandi v. Orlandi (1996), 22 Va. App. 466 - COM. DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. Ewing (1996)
27 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 Antonelli v. Antonelli · 5 Va. App. 414 - Peple v. Peple · 15 Va. App. 696 - Barnhill v. Brooks · 15 Va. App. 575 - Hiner v. Hadeed · 4 Va. App. 148 - Smith v. Smith
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]fter the entry of a decree of divorce”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Code § 20-108 gives the divorce court continuing jurisdiction to change or modify its decree concerning the custody and maintenance of minor children, and a contract between husband and wife cannot prevent the court from exercising this power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Once a child support award has been entered, only a showing of a material change in circumstances will justify modification of the support award. The moving party has the burden of proving a material change by a preponderance of the evidence.”
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.