19 Va. App. 155 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
4
states following
March 2002
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 12 Va. App. 1187 - Jennings v. Jennings · 11 Va. App. 509 - Yeich v. Yeich · 16 Va. App. 792 - Hurt v. Hurt · 12 Va. App. 1129 - Crenshaw v. Crenshaw
Most-quoted passages
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“Married persons may enter into agreements with each other for the purposes of settling the rights and obligations of either or both of them, to the extent, with the same effect, and subject to the same conditions, as provided in §§ 20-147 through 20-154 for agreements between prospective spouses, except that such marital agreements shall become effective immediately upon their execution.”
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.