122 W. Va. 293 - Holcomb v. Holcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1996
21 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 3 E.H. Smith 520 - Wetmore v. . Wetmore · Goff v. Goff · 81 W. Va. 761 - Smith v. Smith · Bassett v. Waters · 117 W. Va. 471 - Biggs v. Biggs
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Code ..., [48-2-15], ... authorizing a trial court, after awarding alimony, to revise or alter such allowance or make a new decree concerning the same, ‘as the altered circumstances or needs of the parties may render necessary to meet the ends of justice,’ pertains to future installments of alimony and does not authorize cancellation of accrued installments. The latter may be cancelled only on such ground as would warrant a court of equity in setting aside a decree because of fraud or other judicially cognizable and harmful circumstances in procuring the decree.”
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.