30 Va. App. 95 - Blackburn v. Michael’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Featherstone v. Brooks · 12 Va. App. 1245 - Scott v. Scott · 13 Va. App. 479 - Furr v. Furr · 27 Va. App. 446 - Niemiec v. COM., DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES · 18 Va. App. 781 - Calvert v. Calvert
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.
“Whether a person is voluntarily unemployed or underemployed is a factual determination. In evaluating a request to impute income, the trial court must “consider the [parties’] earning capacity, financial resources, education and training, ability to secure such education and training, and other factors relevant to the equities of the parents and the children.””
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.