18 Va. App. 481 - Bottoms v. Bottoms’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
February 1999
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bailes v. Sours · Wilkerson v. Wilkerson · Judd v. Van Horn · 1 Va. App. 358 - Simmons v. Simmons · Doe v. Doe
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the trial court abused its discretion by invoking the state's authority to take the child from the custody of his natural mother ... and by transferring custody to a non-parent, ... the child's maternal grandmother.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bottoms v. Bottoms“is and has been a fit and nurturing parent who has adequately provided and cared for her son. No evidence tended to prove that the child will be harmed by remaining with his mother.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bottoms v. Bottoms“other evidence of the child being affected or afflicted with the evidence [sic] which is unrebutted of the cursing, the evidence of the child standing in the corner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bottoms v. Bottoms
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.