157 W. Va. 967 - Corbin v. Corbin’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably 173 W. Va. 200 - Molnar v. Molnar (1984), 162 W. Va. 477 - In Re Estate of Hereford (1978)
26 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 144 W. Va. 478 - Bond v. Bond · 143 W. Va. 896 - State ex rel. Cecil v. Knapp · State v. Knapp · Cooper v. Cooper · 127 W. Va. 826 - Bailey v. Bailey
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Provided, further, That any order or mandate providing for payment of child support for any person up to the age of twenty-one years contained in any decree or order of divorce or separate maintenance or in any order in any nonsupport or bastardy proceeding, which decree or order was entered prior to June nine, one thousand nine hundred seventy-two, may by order of the court be terminated as to such person upon such person attaining the age of eighteen years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the parties cannot by contract alter or change the terms of [a divorce] decree,”
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.