Young v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2011
18 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 Lawrence v. Lawrence · Young v. Young
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the time permanent alimony shall commence is within the sound discretion of the court and may be made effective as of the date of the commencement of the suit. In rejecting [the wife's] argument, the chancellor assigned definitive grounds. We cannot say that his refusal to make the alimony award effective as of the date of the commencement of the suit was an abuse of discretion. However, our opinion [on the first appeal] foreclosed the exercise of the chancellor's discretion to fix a commencement date later than the date of our mandate. Accordingly, we hold that the award of alimony granted [the wife] by the [trial judge's] decree ... is effective beginning [the date of the mandate of the first appeal] with interest from that date. Young v. Young, 215 Va. 125, 126 , 207 S.E.2d 825, 825-26 (1975) (citations and emphasis omitted). See also Hughes v. Hughes, 173 Va. 293, 306 , 4 S.E.2d 402, 407 (1939) (reversing on direct appeal the trial judge's denial of spousal support to the wife under Code § 5111 (now Code § 20-107.1, as amended 1988) and ordering the trial judge to award spousal support to the wife and to calculate restitution if any due to husband for sums he may have paid). The majority intimates that Title 20 exclusively controls "modifications”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reid v. Reid · Reid v. Reid“We have adopted the rule `that the time permanent alimony shall commence is within the sound discretion of the court and may be made effective as of the commencement of the suit'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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