145 W. Va. 233 - Davis v. Hadox’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2014
15 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 131 W. Va. 302 - State Ex Rel. Lipscomb v. Joplin · Green v. Campbell · Cunningham v. Barnes · 144 W. Va. 419 - State Ex Rel. Harmon v. Utterback · 144 W. Va. 64 - Hoy v. Dooley
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a parent, by agreement or otherwise, has transferred, relinquished or surrendered the custody of his or her. child to a third person and subsequently demands the return of the child, the action of the court in determining whether the custody of the child shall remain in such third person or whether the child shall be returned to its parent depends upon which course will promote the welfare and the best interests of the child; and the parent will not be permitted to reclaim the custody of the child unless the parent shows that such change of custody will materially promote the moral and physical welfare of the child.’ Point 4 Syllabus, State ex rel. Harmon v. Utterback, [144] W.Va. [419], [ 108 S.E.2d 521 ] [ (1959) ].”
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.