126 W. Va. 498 - McLaughlin v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2001
8 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 Goff v. Goff · 68 W. Va. 15 - Reynolds v. Reynolds · Butler v. Butler · 112 W. Va. 481 - Arnold v. Arnold · 106 W. Va. 680 - White v. White
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(4) For cruel and inhuman treatment by either party against the other, which includes reasonable apprehension of bodily harm, false accusation of adultery or homosexuality, conduct or treatment which destroys or tends to destroy the mental or physical wellbeing, happiness and welfare of the other and render continued cohabitation unsafe or unendurable: Provided, that under no circumstances shall it be necessary to allege or prove acts of physical violence in order to establish cruel and inhuman treatment as a ground for divorce, (Emphasis added.)”
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.