170 W. Va. 712 - Cummings v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 177 W. Va. 742 - Goff v. Goff (1987), 206 W. Va. 51 - Daily Gazette Co. v. West Virginia Development Office (1999)
42 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 · 144 W. Va. 478 - Bond v. Bond · 166 W. Va. 383 - Sandusky v. Sandusky · 151 W. Va. 274 - Belcher v. Belcher
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial [court] ... is vested with a wide discretion in determining the amount of ... court costs and counsel fees, [sic] and the trial [court's] ... determination of such matters will not be disturbed upon appeal to this Court unless it clearly appears that [it] has abused [its] discretion.”
9 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.