168 W. Va. 334 - Wight v. Wight’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2003
11 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 160 W. Va. 514 - Nichols v. Nichols · 160 W. Va. 694 - O'NEIL v. City of Parkersburg · Cole v. Cole · 157 W. Va. 724 - Higginbotham v. City of Charleston · Cariens v. Cariens
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At any time after the entry of an order pursuant to the provisions of this section, the court may, ..., revise or alter such order concerning the maintenance of the parties, or either of them, and make a new order concerning the same, ..., as the altered circumstances or needs of the parties may render necessary to meet the ends of justice.”
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.