164 W. Va. 358 - Horton v. Horton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 177 W. Va. 742 - Goff v. Goff (1987), 325 Pa. Super. 39 - In Re Donna W. (1984)
53 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 128 W. Va. 198 - Taylor v. Taylor · 161 W. Va. 45 - Cloud v. Cloud · 147 W. Va. 660 - Rakes v. Ferguson · Delmar Oil Co. v. Bartlett · 141 W. Va. 43 - Witt v. Witt
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a party offers evidence to which an objection is sustained, that party, in order to preserve the rejection of the evidence as error on appeal, must place the rejected evidence on the record or disclose what the evidence would have shown, and the failure to do so prevents an appellate court from reviewing the matter on appeal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In a divorce suit the finding of fact of a trial chancellor based on conflicting evidence will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is clearly wrong or against the preponderance of the evidence."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. S.L.M. v. J.M. · Slm v. Jm“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.”
1 later decision 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.