129 W. Va. 765 - Pukas v. Pukas’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 1986 · most notably 153 W. Va. 404 - State Ex Rel. Kiger v. Hancock (1969), 131 W. Va. 302 - State Ex Rel. Lipscomb v. Joplin (1948)
48 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 123 W. Va. 707 - Perkins v. Hall · Green v. Campbell · Cunningham v. Barnes · 117 W. Va. 476 - Settle v. Settle · 109 W. Va. 513 - Reynolds v. Reynolds
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A foreign decree or order awarding the custody of a minor child in a divorce suit is not res judicata in a subsequent proceeding in this State, involving the custody of the infant, where there has been such change in the conditions since the rendition of the foreign judgment as to render its modification desirable for the welfare and protection of the child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.