Kelley v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 36 Va. App. 401 - Joynes v. Payne (2001), 37 Va. App. 240 - Shoup v. Shoup (2001)
64 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 Rook v. Rook · Featherstone v. Brooks · Slaughter v. Commonwealth · Carter v. Carter · 12 Va. App. 1245 - Scott v. Scott
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“parents cannot contract away their children's rights to support nor can a court be precluded by agreement from exercising its power to decree child support.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the children's rights to receive support from both parents were substantially abridged, and the court's power to decree support was diminished.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The parties hereto agree, in consideration of Husband relinquishing all of his equity in the jointly owned marital home, that Husband shall never be responsible for payment of child support. The [Wife] covenants and agrees never to file a petition in any Court requesting that [Husband] be placed under a child support Order because [Wife] has accepted all of [Husband’s] equity in lieu of requesting child support. In the event [Wife] should ever petition any Court of competent jurisdiction for support and maintenance of [the children], and should a Court grant any such child support award, the said [Wife] hereby covenants and agrees to pay directly to [Husband], any amount of support that he is directed to pay to any party. In other words, [Wife] is agreeing to hold harmless [Husband] from the payment of any amount of child support, regardless of the circumstances under which he is paying same.”
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.