154 W. Va. 739 - Ball v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 154 W. Va. 369 - Intercity Realty Company v. Gibson · 142 W. Va. 716 - Lieberman v. Lieberman · 133 W. Va. 403 - Wolford v. Wolford · 106 W. Va. 634 - Horkheimer v. Horkheimer · 147 W. Va. 463 - Gallaher v. Gallaher
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The findings of the trial chancellor, based on conflicting evidence, will not be disturbed on appeal unless such findings are clearly wrong or against the preponderance of the evidence.” Syllabus point 4, Ball v. Ball, 154 W.Va. 739 , 179 S.E.2d 221 (1971); Syllabus point 5, Lieberman v. Lieberman, 142 W.Va. 716 , 98 S.E.2d 275 (1957); see, Witt v. Witt, 141 W.Va. 43 , 87 S.E.2d 524 (1955).”
4 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.