Westbrook v. Westbrook

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing court’s classification of real estate as separate where parties executed postnuptial agreement stating that property was marital property
• written agreement that house was owned by both spouses
• acknowledging courts’ statutory jurisdiction over divorce

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lutes v. Alexander
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-08-25· cited 158×
• Alphin v. Alphin
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-08· cited 154×
• McDavid v. McDavid
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-12-13· cited 139×
• Gottlieb v. Gottlieb
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-09-27· cited 125×
• Ranney v. Ranney
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-02-01· cited 96×
• Marion v. Marion
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-02-12· cited 95×
• Barnes v. Barnes
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-03-16· cited 92×
• Twardy v. Twardy
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-06-09· cited 92×
• Marie Holt Hart v. James P. Hart, III
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-03-31· cited 73×
• Noel J. Albert v. Cynthia G. Albert
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-05-21· cited 64×
• Lassen v. Lassen
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-08-08· cited 56×
• D'Ambrosio v. D'Ambrosio
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-03-29· cited 50×
• Matthews v. Matthews
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-02-24· cited 46×
• Davis v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-03-07· cited 46×
• Pelfrey v. Pelfrey
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-15· cited 38×
• Poliquin v. Poliquin
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-06-18· cited 38×
• Stratton v. Stratton
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-10· cited 37×
• Thomas H. Ragsdale v. Diane Harris Ragsdale
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-07-27· cited 36×
• Bindu Bajgain v. Devendra Bajgain
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-03-17· cited 30×
• Huger v. Huger
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-07-27· cited 27×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McGinnis v. McGinnis
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-12-17· cited 260×
• Smoot v. Smoot
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-06-12· cited 109×
• Parra v. Parra
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1985-10-15· cited 70×
• Price v. Price
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-05-05· cited 48×
• Robertson v. Robertson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-01-20· cited 46×
• McCotter v. Carle
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1927-12-22· cited 40×
• McNeir v. McNeir
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1941-10-13· cited 32×
• White v. White
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-03-08· cited 27×
• Brown v. Kittle
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-06-17· cited 18×

Other cases named Westbrook v. Westbrook

8 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Westbrook v. Westbrook
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-07-09· cited 4×
• Westbrook v. Westbrook
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1961-12-05· cited 1×
• Westbrook v. Westbrook
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2023-01-19· cited 1×
• Westbrook v. Westbrook
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2023-01-19· cited 1×
• Westbrook v. Westbrook
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1950-01-05
• Westbrook v. Westbrook
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2018-08-29
• Westbrook v. Westbrook
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-09-24
• Westbrook v. Westbrook
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2026-06-11