4 Va. App. 19 - Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson (1994), 24 Va. App. 190 - Moreno v. Moreno (1997)
60 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 · 1 Va. App. 385 - Rexrode v. Rexrode · 2 Va. App. 130 - Papuchis v. Papuchis · 2 Va. App. 486 - Bentz v. Bentz
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“support and equitable distribution awards are based on entirely different considerations and serve entirely different purposes. Court ordered support is intended to place the burden on a spouse or parent to maintain his or her family rather than placing that burden on the state. Furthermore, the amount of support is based on current needs of the spouse and/or children and the ability of the other spouse/parent to pay from current assets. The “equitable distribution” statute, however, is intended to recognize a marriage as a partnership and to provide a means to divide equitably the wealth accumulated during and by that partnership based on the monetary and non-monetary contributions of each spouse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“without regard to maintenance and support awarded”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re MacYs
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.