2 Va. App. 238 - Dodge v. Dodge’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 3 Va. App. 337 - Woolley v. Woolley (1986), 39 Va. App. 96 - Davis v. Commonwealth (2002)
59 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 Hill v. Hill · 1 Va. App. 272 - McGinnis v. McGinnis · Raiford v. Raiford · Jacobs v. Jacobs · Lapidus v. Lapidus
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the chancellor has given due consideration to each of these factors, as shown by the evidence, his determination as to spousal support will not be disturbed except for a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we `presume the judgment of the trial court to be correct' and `will not set it aside 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.