Jacobs v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Kunkle v. Kunkle (1990), 79 Ill. App. 3d 835 - In Re Marriage of Pieper (1979)
68 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 Robertson v. Robertson · Thomas v. Thomas
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts of this Commonwealth are empowered to assess spousal support awards, not to penalize or reward either party to the marriage contract, but rather to do equity between the two and to protect society’s interests in the incidents of the marital relationship. Code § 20-107[.l] defines several standards for balancing the respective needs and capacities of the husband and wife. The balance must be struck and awards made “upon the basis of the circumstances disclosed by the evidence at the time of the award.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Code § 20-109 grants courts continuing jurisdiction to modify awards where changed circumstances are demonstrated. Thus, “[the] statutory scheme recognizes that comparative needs and capacities change as circumstances change, that changes are not fairly predictable, and that spousal support awards must be determined in light of contemporary circumstances and ... redetermined [if necessary] in light of new circumstances.” Jacobs v. Jacobs, 219 Va. 993, 995 , 254 S.E.2d 56, 58 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.