45 Va. App. 799 - Albert v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2023
8 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 Troxel v. Granville · 23 Va. App. 690 - O'Loughlin v. O'Loughlin · 4 Va. App. 326 - Graves v. Graves · Featherstone v. Brooks · Morris v. Morris
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the trial court, in addressing a change of custody and visitation petition between the biological mother and the stepfather, must apply the presumption as defined in Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57, 65 [ 120 S.Ct. 2054, 2060 , 147 L.Ed.2d 49 ] (2000), favoring the natural parent over a third-party or stepparent, or if the existence of a prior final decree of a court of competent jurisdiction requires that the court apply the “material change in circumstance and best interest of the child” standard in modifying the prior order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“By placing the burdens of proof and of going forward with the evidence upon husband to demonstrate that "actual harm” to the child would result by his not being granted custody or visitation rights, the [circuit] court placed the burdens of proof and production of evidence on the wrong party and applied an incorrect standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“actual harm” to the child would result by his not being granted custody or visitation rights, the [circuit] court placed the burdens of proof and production of evidence on the wrong party and applied an incorrect standard. Id. at 808 , 613 S.E.2d at 869 . Likewise, in this case, mother’s request for application of the”
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.