30 Va. App. 670 - Brown v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Under the common law, an appearance for the purpose of taking advantage of the lack of process had to be by special appearance, and the party had to expressly state that he or she was appearing specially.... The party had to be particular not to allow the appearance to assume such shape as [would] admit the jurisdiction of the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 71 Va. Cir. 63 - Caravelle Manufacturing Corp. v. Ultra Wash, L.L.C.

2. “[Wle recognized that a parent must be accorded the benefits of due process in a custody dispute.... [but] in any child custody decision, the lodestar for the court is the best interest of the child, and the due process rights of the parents must be tempered by this guiding principle.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Helen S.K. v. Samuel M.K.