19 Va. App. 147 - Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
February 2007
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 7 Va. App. 269 - Cantrell v. Commonwealth · 14 Va. App. 558 - Gamble v. Gamble · Morris v. Morris · 7 Va. App. 1 - Aster v. Gross · Bristow v. Bristow
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]arties engaged to be married are not dealing at arm's length,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“occupy a confidential relationship toward each other,”
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.