43 Va. App. 427 - Yopp v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
August 2010
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Troxel v. Granville · 40 Va. App. 255 - Congdon v. Congdon · Mullen v. Mullen · 7 Va. App. 614 - Com., Dept. of Social Services v. Johnson · Barker v. Commonwealth
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard enunciated in Dotson applies here because father expressly supported the maternal grandparents’ request for visitation with the child and the mother has never asserted, and does not now assert, that father is an unfit parent who should be deemed legally incapable of participating in parental decision making.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the credibility of witnesses and the weight to be accorded their testimony is a matter exclusively within the province of the trier of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was in the best interests of the child because”
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.