7 Va. App. 22 - Booth v. Booth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 15 Va. App. 395 - Alphin v. Alphin (1992), 22 Va. App. 557 - Theismann v. Theismann (1996)
61 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 Rothman v. Rothman · 116 Ill. 2d 528 - Airey v. Department of Revenue · 114 Ill. App. 3d 47 - In Re Marriage of Smith · Eaton v. Davis · 2 Va. App. 178 - Venable v. Venable
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.
“[I]n order to alter the evaluation for an equitable distribution award under Code § 20-107.3(E)(5), there must be a showing of use of the marital property for the benefit of one spouse and for purposes unrelated to the marriage in anticipation of divorce or separation and at a time when the marriage is in jeopardy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[It is] apparent from the language of the statute, as well as the necessary consequences of the act, that it applies to cases filed after the effective date of the statute, regardless of when the cause of action arose. To hold otherwise would require courts a generation from now to apply outmoded principles of law. Indeed, we would postpone solving for some time the very inequity the legislature sought to remedy. Disputes would arise over when the grounds for divorce occurred and which support and property laws applied. The legislature could not have intended that result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The intent of the General Assembly determines whether a statute will be applied retrospectively, but the general rule of statutory construction is that legislation only speaks prospectively.”
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.