Bray v. Landergren

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that a void ab initio marriage is the equivalent of \no marriage at all.\
• “A lis pendens is not a seizure. It is restrictive only and but serves to warn others that rights which they may acquire will be subject to any valid judgment entered.”
• “A lis pendens is not a seizure. It is restrictive only and but serves to warn others that rights which they may acquire will be subject to any valid judgment entered”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

47 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lapidus v. Lapidus
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-01-20· cited 63×
• Buchanan v. Buchanan
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-03-10· cited 53×
• State ex rel. Cecil v. Knapp
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1958-11-11· cited 50×
• Heflin v. Heflin
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-04-21· cited 49×
• Higgins v. McFarland
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-03-07· cited 43×
• Wheeler v. Wheeler
  D.C. Circuit· 1951-02-15· cited 37×
• Smith v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-04-07· cited 35×
• Capell v. Capell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-03-14· cited 34×
• Durrett v. Durrett
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-01-14· cited 31×
• Minton v. First Natl. Exchange Bank of Virginia
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-11-29· cited 29×
• Ring v. Ring
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-06-10· cited 29×
• Watkins v. Watkins
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-04-18· cited 28×
• White v. White
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-03-08· cited 27×
• Aldrich v. Aldrich
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1962-07-06· cited 24×
• Levine v. McLeskey
  E.D. Virginia· 1995-03-10· cited 24×
• Esselstyn v. CASTEEL
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1955-10-05· cited 23×
• In Re Loy
  E.D. Virginia· 2007-12-18· cited 22×
• Jackson v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-04-26· cited 20×
• Taylor v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-10-09· cited 20×
• Newport v. Newport
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-06-09· cited 18×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Audubon v. Shufeldt
  Supreme Court· 1901-05-20· cited 181×
• Pennington v. Fourth National Bank of Cincinnati
  Supreme Court· 1917-03-06· cited 139×
• Barnes v. American Fertilizer Co.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1925-12-17· cited 124×
• Southern Railway Co. v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1933-12-04· cited 79×
• Campbell v. Campbell
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1875-01-15· cited 64×
• Stewart v. Stewart
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1885-11-28· cited 52×
• Blackinton v. Blackinton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1886-04-01· cited 42×
• McCotter v. Carle
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1927-12-22· cited 40×
• Chaires v. Chaires
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1864-07-01· cited 21×
• Darby v. Darby
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1925-12-06· cited 18×
• Thompson v. Tanner
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-03-05· cited 11×
• Holmes v. Holmes
  E.D. Michigan· 1922-10-24· cited 5×
• Trimble v. Trimble
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1899-06-22· cited 2×