White v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 5 Va. App. 446 - Westbrook v. Westbrook (1988), Isbell v. Commercial Inv. Associates, Inc. (2007)
7 federal appellate · 31 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 Gloth v. Gloth · Heflin v. Heflin · McClaugherty v. McClaugherty · Bray v. Landergren · Chandler v. Chandler
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[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”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Alimony and the obligation of a father to support his infant children exists independent of statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foster v. Foster
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.