8 Va. App. 12 - Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2016
24 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 1 Va. App. 272 - McGinnis v. McGinnis · 5 Va. App. 446 - Westbrook v. Westbrook · 2 Va. App. 21 - Dukelow v. Dukelow · 157 Pa. Super. 582 - Smith v. Smith · 4 Va. App. 397 - Wagner v. Wagner
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe the key to a proper award of counsel fees to be reasonableness under all circumstances revealed by the record. Although evidence of time expended by counsel and the charges made to the client is a preferred basis upon which a trial court can formulate a reasonable award, it is not the only basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Lewis
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.