27 Va. App. 426 - Piatt v. Piatt’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably 35 Va. App. 413 - Cloutier v. Queen (2001), 37 Va. App. 591 - Goodhand v. Kildoo (2002)
27 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 7 Va. App. 10 - Blain v. Commonwealth · 3 Va. App. 523 - Bridgeman v. Commonwealth · Justus v. Commonwealth · 2 Va. App. 178 - Venable v. Venable · 3 Va. App. 337 - Woolley v. Woolley
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`that the trier of fact ascertains [an expert] witness' credibility, determines the weight to be given to their testimony, and has the discretion to accept or reject any of the witness' testimony.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because the trial court heard the evidence at an ore tenus hearing, its decision `is entitled to great weight and will not be disturbed unless 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.