3 Va. App. 337 - Woolley v. Woolley’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably 15 Va. App. 395 - Alphin v. Alphin (1992), 7 Va. App. 22 - Booth v. Booth (1988)
87 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 Leonard v. Counts · 66 Md. App. 68 - Campolattaro v. Campolattaro · Lapidus v. Lapidus · 2 Va. App. 238 - Dodge v. Dodge · Thomasson v. Thomasson
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement that the trial court consider all of the statutory factors necessarily implies substantive consideration of the evidence presented as it relates to all of these factors. This does not mean that the trial court is required to quantify or elaborate exactly what weight or consideration it has given to each of the statutory factors. It does mean, however, that the court’s findings must have some foundation based on the evidence presented.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When ... the chancellor fails to state any basis for a ... conclusion, the reviewing court is hindered in its task”
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.