151 W. Va. 274 - Belcher v. Belcher’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably 170 W. Va. 712 - Cummings v. Cummings (1982), 166 W. Va. 383 - Sandusky v. Sandusky (1981)
33 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 128 W. Va. 198 - Taylor v. Taylor · 128 W. Va. 290 - Sutton v. Sutton · Phillips v. Phillips · Boos v. Boos · 147 W. Va. 557 - Brinkley v. Brinkley
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a divorce suit the finding of fact of a trial chancellor based on conflicting evidence will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is clearly wrong or against the preponderance of evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lam v. Mlm · L. A. M. v. M. L. M.
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.