161 W. Va. 45 - Cloud v. Cloud’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably 164 W. Va. 358 - Horton v. Horton (1980), 174 W. Va. 692 - Rowsey v. Rowsey (1985)
79 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 133 W. Va. 501 - Pugh v. Pugh · 152 W. Va. 119 - Holstein v. Holstein · 158 W. Va. 964 - Funkhouser v. Funkhouser · 117 W. Va. 476 - Settle v. Settle
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To justify a change of child custody, in addition to a change in circumstances of the parties, it must be shown that such change would materially promote the welfare of the child.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.