4 Va. App. 509 - Ray v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably 14 Va. App. 53 - Buchanan v. Buchanan (1992), 14 Va. App. 558 - Gamble v. Gamble (1992)
33 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 3 Va. App. 337 - Woolley v. Woolley · Bristow v. Bristow · Taylor v. Taylor · Klotz v. Klotz
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.
“In respect to alimony, the general rule is that the income of the husband, however derived or derivable, is the fund from which the allowance is made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a divorce case, where a claim for alimony is made by a wife who has been held blameless for the marital breach, the law imposes upon the husband the duty, within the limits of his financial ability, to maintain his former wife according to the station in life to which she was accustomed during the marriage. In fixing the amount of alimony, the court must look to the financial needs of the wife, her age, physical condition and her ability to earn, and balance against these circumstances the financial ability of the husband to pay, considering his income and ability to earn. The amount awarded must, in any event, be fair and just under all the circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where an equitable distribution award is appropriate, then all of the provisions of Code § 20-107.3 must be followed____ The court must “determine the legal title as between the parties, and the ownership and value of all property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, of the parties and shall consider which of such property is separate property and which is marital property.” ... Once the marital property is identified and valued, then the court is authorized to make a monetary award based on all the factors enumerated in Code § 20-107.3(E).”
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.