129 W. Va. 174 - State Ex Rel. Watson v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 (1959), State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 (1959)
26 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 121 W. Va. 103 - Anderson v. Anderson · 120 W. Va. 521 - State v. Jackson · State ex rel. Churchman v. Hall · State ex rel. Herald v. Surber · McDermitt v. Newman
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]n this jurisdiction divorce has always been governed by statute. West Virginia Code 1868, Chapter 64. As stated ... in Boger v. Boger, 86 W.Va. 590 , 104 S.E. 49 [1920], `The Statute [Barnes Code, Chapter 64] is not amendatory of the common law or the ecclesiastical law. It is full, complete and comprehensive, covering every phase of divorce; wherefore it was manifestly designed by the Legislature to be a substitute for all other law applicable to that subject'"”
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.