166 W. Va. 383 - Sandusky v. Sandusky’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
35
cited by 35 later decisions
1
states following
July 1997
most recently cited
35 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 160 W. Va. 514 - Nichols v. Nichols · 128 W. Va. 198 - Taylor v. Taylor · Bowman v. Bowman · 160 W. Va. 610 - Murredu v. Murredu · Bryant v. Bryant
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"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."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[a]limony must not be disproportionate to a [person's] ability to pay as disclosed by the evidence before the court.' Syllabus, Miller v. Miller, 114 W.Va. 600 , 172 S.E. 893 (1934).”
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.