126 W. Va. 430 - Nield v. Nield’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 1983 · most notably 128 W. Va. 198 - Taylor v. Taylor (1945), 143 W. Va. 896 - State ex rel. Cecil v. Knapp (1958)
25 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 Abell v. Penn Mutual Life Insurance · 125 W. Va. 619 - McKinley v. Queen · McCotter v. Carle · Boger v. Boger · Shaft v. . Phoenix Mutual Life Ins. Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The notice served on appellant states a fact and a conclusion: That forty dollars a month was being paid for the children's support and that the amount was inadequate. The notice was not addressed to the court and contained no prayer for relief. The liberal rule that substance of a pleading filed in a suit rather than its form determines its effect has been accepted and applied in this jurisdiction.... Nevertheless the notice served on appellant cannot be considered and treated as a petition or any kind of pleading." [4]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A court of equity has no inherent jurisdiction of a suit for divorce, the authority to hear and determine the same being derived from statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McDonald v. McDonald“[did] not relate to the jurisdiction of the court, but to the manner in which jurisdiction was attempted to be exercised.”
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.