Higgins v. Higgins

How courts have described this case

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

• \When a cause is referred to a commissioner in chancery the chancellor does not delegate his judicial function to him. . . . It is the duty of the chancellor to weigh the evidence according to correct principles of law and arrive at his own conclusions.\
• discussing duties of and deference to commissioner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bailes v. Sours
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-03-07· cited 100×
• Wilkerson v. Wilkerson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-11-26· cited 52×
• Brown v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-10-30· cited 30×
• Hughes v. Hughes
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-01· cited 24×
• Dooley v. Dooley
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-06-12· cited 17×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-06-29· cited 16×
• Romero v. Colbow
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-04-07· cited 10×
• Christman v. Christman
  Virginia Beach County Circuit Court· 1983-08-18
• Collins v. Collins
  Arlington County Circuit Court· 1984-08-16
• Ashton v. Ashton
  Arlington County Circuit Court· 1985-01-21
• McClellan v. McClellan
  Virginia Circuit Court· 1988-08-11
• Holland v. MBM Sales, Inc.
  Spotsylvania County Circuit Court· 1994-07-06
• Jacobs v. Church
  Spotsylvania County Circuit Court· 1995-04-28
• Farrell v. Wylie
  Spotsylvania County Circuit Court· 1998-12-04
• Poynter v. Ransom
  Spotsylvania County Circuit Court· 1999-09-23
• Spence v. Spence
  Spotsylvania County Circuit Court· 2000-05-02
• City of Fredericksburg v. Yarboro
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2001-11-06

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mullen v. Mullen
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-09-08· cited 81×
• Raiford v. Raiford
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-01-21· cited 54×
• Forbes v. Haney
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-12-02· cited 35×
• Hoffecker v. Hoffecker
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-09-10· cited 30×
• Martin v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-03-12· cited 29×
• Brooks v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-01-26· cited 20×
• Campbell v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-11-27· cited 19×
• Holt v. Holt
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-11-20· cited 12×
• Colbert v. Colbert
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-06-14· cited 11×
• Johnson v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-06-12· cited 7×