159 W. Va. 882 - Adams v. Bowens’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2000
15 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 155 W. Va. 475 - Wilkinson v. Searls · 155 W. Va. 103 - Mowery v. Hitt · 152 W. Va. 119 - Holstein v. Holstein · 155 W. Va. 801 - State Ex Rel. Cash v. Lively · 129 W. Va. 765 - Pukas v. Pukas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, this Court will not decide nonjurisdictional questions which were not considered and decided by the court from which the appeal has been taken."”
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.