172 W. Va. 419 - Dempsey v. Dempsey’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
July 1993
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 167 W. Va. 59 - Garska v. McCoy · 171 W. Va. 602 - Ledsome v. Ledsome
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must proceed to inquire further into relative degrees of parental competence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tcb v. Hab
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.