162 W. Va. 289 - Dyer v. Tsapis’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably 172 W. Va. 158 - LaRue v. LaRue (1983), 178 W. Va. 563 - Cross v. Cross (1987)
38 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 In Re the Marriage of Williams · 67 Cal. App. 3d 416 - In Re Marriage of Brantner · 143 W. Va. 896 - State ex rel. Cecil v. Knapp · State v. Knapp · Chapman v. Chapman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law which once saw marriage as a sacrament now conceptualizes it as roughly analogous to a business partnership.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“alimony according to the right of the matter ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Formerly when a wife established a ground for divorce based on traditional fault she was enti- tied to damages keyed to her station in life. The husband, however, had reasonably definite notice of those things which he must not do in order to protect himself from this charge. What, however, we are attempting to do under the hybrid section of the statute under consideration is not to punish either party, but rather only to avoid unjust enrichment on either side. Therefore, notwithstanding the fact that a wife is blameless, if a divorce is granted on the no-fault ground of voluntary separation and alimony is predicated upon that nebulous notion of inequitable conduct, then the wife has an obligation to mitigate her damages — again an analogy from the contract side of this new confluent stream which merges tort and contract principles (which it should be emphasized again we recognize are applicable only by analogy as all parts of an action for divorce are obviously entirely equitable.) 249 S.E.2d at 512-13 .”
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.