Morris v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 4 Va. App. 113 - Mitchell v. Mitchell (1987), 7 Va. App. 22 - Booth v. Booth (1988)
61 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 1 Va. App. 272 - McGinnis v. McGinnis · 2 Va. App. 178 - Venable v. Venable · 1 Va. App. 118 - Parra v. Parra · 1 Va. App. 385 - Rexrode v. Rexrode · 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court has the power to reserve in a decree of divorce the authority to make a monetary award under Code § 20-107.3. Parra v. Parra, 1 Va. App. 118, 127 , 336 S.E.2d 157 , 162 (1985). This holding is consistent with the long held principle that a court of chancery need not fully exercise its power at one time but may adapt its relief to the circumstances of a particular case. Brinn v. Brinn, 147 Va. 277, 285 , 137 S.E. 503, 505 (1927). The trial court’s decision was also consistent with its authority to reserve consideration of support questions beyond the time of the final decree. Thomasson v. Thomasson, 225 Va. 394 , 397 n.1, 302 S.E.2d 63 , 65 n.1 (1983). Therefore, we find no error in the trial court’s exercise of this authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The partitioned property or its proceeds must be divided in a manner that will insure that each owner receives the amount of money or property to which his interest in the property entitles him. However, the value of this property still remains a consideration in determining the amount of a monetary award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Since no timely notice of appeal was filed with respect to the decree of divorce itself we do not consider any issue concerning the correctness of the decree of divorce and only consider evidence of the grounds for divorce to the extent that it relates to the award of spousal support.”
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.