131 W. Va. 449 - Holmes v. Clegg’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably 135 W. Va. 877 - State v. Epperly (1951), 152 W. Va. 372 - State v. Bragg (1968)
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 People Ex Rel. Lawton v. . Snell · 129 W. Va. 410 - State Ex Rel. Rufus v. Easley · 107 W. Va. 563 - State v. Reed · 103 W. Va. 148 - State v. John · 113 W. Va. 587 - State v. Hoult
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.
“Under the nonsupport statute (Code, 48-8-1) and the bastardy statute (Code, 48-7-1), read in pari materia, a warrant, charging a defendant with nonsupport of his alleged illegitimate child `under the age of sixteen years and in destitute and necessitous circumstances', is insufficient and fatally defective unless it contains a further allegation that the child is under the age of three years or that the paternity of the child is admitted by the defendant, or had been admitted before the child attained the age of three years, or had been judicially determined in a bastardy or nonsupport proceeding instituted within three years after the child's birth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to prevent the child from becoming a public charge, and to compel the father to maintain and support it for such period as may be fixed by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of the county in which she resides and accuse any person of being the father of a bastard child of which she has been delivered.”
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.