5 Va. App. 238 - Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 19 Va. App. 77 - Gottlieb v. Gottlieb (1994), 9 Va. App. 1 - Bosserman v. Bosserman (1989)
70 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 Smoot v. Smoot · McAlear v. McAlear · 1 Va. App. 385 - Rexrode v. Rexrode · Anthony v. Kasey · Eddens v. Eddens
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he chancellor is necessarily vested with broad discretion in the discharge of the duties the statute [Code § 20-107.3] imposes upon him. Unless it appears from the record that the chancellor has abused his discretion, that he had not considered or has misapplied one of the statutory mandates, or that the evidence fails to support the findings of fact underlying his resolution of the conflict in the equities, the chancellor’s equitable distribution award will not be reversed on appeal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A distinct difference . . . exists between a spousal support award [made pursuant to Code § 20-107.1] and a monetary award made pursuant to Code § 20-107.3. Spousal support involves a legal duty flowing from one spouse to the other by virtue of the marital relationship. By contrast, a monetary award does not flow from any legal duty, but involves an adjustment of the equities, rights and interests of the parties in the marital property.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reid v. Reid · Reid v. Reid“(i) all property, real and personal, acquired by either party before the marriage; (ii) all property acquired during the marriage by bequest, devise, descent, survivorship or gift from a source other than the other party; and (iii) all property acquired during the marriage in exchange for or from the proceeds of sale of separate property, provided that such property acquired during the marriage is maintained as separate property.”
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.