137 W. Va. 179 - Bennett v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 1975 · most notably Harrison v. State (1975), 142 W. Va. 830 - State Ex Rel. Browning v. Tucker (1957)
50 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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · Estin v. Estin · Sherrer v. Sherrer · Coe v. Coe · Waldron v. Harvey
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the jurisdiction of a court to grant a divorce depends upon the existence of certain facts, such facts must be pleaded, and, if not pleaded, the court has no right or power to proceed or act in the cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The power of the court, however, to enter a valid judgment does not depend alone upon jurisdiction of the parties. It must as well have jurisdiction of the subject matter. . . . “Likewise the court has no power to decree a divorce where the record shows upon its face a complete absence of facts to support the charge. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where there is no pleading to warrant a decree, or part of a decree, the decree, or such part of it, is not merely voidable, but void, as it is not on a matter in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Knapp
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.