19 Va. App. 406 - McDavid v. McDavid’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Thomas C. Shooltz v. Jane Hoffman Shooltz (1998), 26 Va. App. 195 - Sara Rahbaran v. Kamran Rahbaran (1997)
56 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 10 Va. App. 728 - Srinivasan v. Srinivasan · Smoot v. Smoot · Bowen v. Bowen · 5 Va. App. 446 - Westbrook v. Westbrook · 13 Va. App. 123 - Logan v. Fairfax County Department of Human Development
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Married persons may enter into agreements with each other for the purpose of settling the rights and obligations of either or both of them, to the same 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the property was to be held by husband “in his own right as his separate and equitable estate as if he were an unmarried man ... free from the control and marital rights of his present ... spouse” and “with full and complete power ... [to] dispose of the ... property ... during his lifetime ... [or by] devise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A decision regarding equitable distribution rests within the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed unless it is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.”
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.