147 W. Va. 660 - Rakes v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably 158 W. Va. 741 - Long v. City of Weirton (1975), Cofer v. Cofer (1965)
56 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 Pennsylvania v. Budd Co. · 142 W. Va. 830 - State Ex Rel. Browning v. Tucker · 124 W. Va. 486 - White Sulphur Springs, Inc. v. Ripley · 129 W. Va. 722 - State Ex Rel. Cosner v. See · 138 W. Va. 901 - State Ex Rel. Lovejoy v. Skeen
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of fraud or other judicially cognizable and harmful circumstance in the procurement of a decree for child support, a circuit court is without authority to modify or cancel arrearages of a former husband’s child support payments, which payments accrued prior to the date of the adoption of such children by the wife’s subsequent husband. W.Va.Code, 48-4-5 [1969].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although a court has jurisdiction of the subject matter in controversy and of the parties, if it clearly appears that in the conduct of the case it has exceeded its legitimate powers with respect to some pertinent question a writ of prohibition will lie to prevent such abuse of power.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Every judgment or decree for the payment of money, except where it is otherwise provided by law, shall bear interest from the date thereof, whether it be so stated in the judgment or decree or not."”
2 later decisions 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.