Chappell v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
33
cited by 33 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shiflet v. Eller · Boyd v. Commonwealth · Taylor v. Smith
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“B. Nothing herein shall cause to be included in the augmented estate (i) the value of any property transferred by the decedent during marriage with the written consent or joinder of the surviving spouse; [or] (ii) the value of any property, its income or proceeds, received by the decedent by gift, will, intestate succession, or any other method or form of transfer to the extent it. is received without full consideration in money or money’s worth, before or during the marriage to the surviving spouse, from a person other than the surviving spouse to the extent such property, income, or proceeds were maintained by the decedent as separate property....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed v. Reed · Dowling v. Rowan“indicates that the General Assembly enacted the amendment as a clarification of existing law. Therefore, applying the presumption, we conclude that a change in the law, not a clarification, was intended by the amendment. And, Boyd is inapposite. There, an exception was applied to the rule that a change in the law is intended when new provisions are added to prior legislation by amendment. Unlike the present case, the amendments in Boyd were changes in form, which merely interpreted the existing law and made it more specific. The changes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The legislation defining the augmented estate begins with the value of the property in the decedent’s probate estate. That value is increased by the value of certain property previously transferred by the decedent. Code § 64.1-16.1(A). The value of the augmented estate is then decreased by excluding the value of certain property identified in Subsection B of Code § 64.1 -16.1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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