Buchanan v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'[W]hen a court of equity acquires jurisdiction of a cause, for any purpose, it will retain it, and do complete justice between the parties, enforcing, if necessary, legal rights, and applying legal remedies to accomplish that end.’ ” White, 181 Va. at 169 , 24 S.E.2d at 451 (quoting Buchanan v. Buchanan, 174 Va. 255, 279 , 6 S.E.2d 612, 622 (1940)). It is also true that”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. White v. White · Steven T. Russell v. Karen A. Russell

2. ““Courts of equity, having such jurisdiction before the enactment of the statute * * * still retain it although the statute may furnish a complete and adequate remedy at law. Courts of equity, having once acquired jurisdiction, never lose it because jurisdiction of the same matters are given to law courts, unless the statute giving such jurisdiction use prohibitory restrictive words.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. White v. White