157 W. Va. 537 - Savage v. Savage’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2003
11 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 Perry v. Perry · 149 W. Va. 352 - Farley v. Farley · 156 W. Va. 839 - Childress v. Childress
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This matter is discussed in 24 Am. Jur.2d Divorce and Separation, § 658, in the following language: `Statutory power to modify a decree for permanent alimony does not inferentially authorize the court to award alimony after divorce where none was given by the decree. To allow alimony subsequently to the decree would amount to an original and new judgment, not a modification; alteration can be made only of something then in existence.'" 157 W.Va. at 539 , 203 S.E.2d at 152 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Where a final divorce decree made no award of alimony, the divorce decree cannot be subsequently modified to grant alimony."”
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.