174 W. Va. 692 - Rowsey v. Rowsey’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 182 W. Va. 57 - David M. v. Margaret M. (1989), Taylor v. Taylor (2003)
28 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. 610 - Murredu v. Murredu · 161 W. Va. 45 - Cloud v. Cloud · 133 W. Va. 501 - Pugh v. Pugh · 90 Wash. 2d 626 - Schuster v. Schuster · 164 W. Va. 358 - Horton v. Horton
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A change of custody should not be based only upon speculation that such change will be beneficial to the children.’ Syl. pt. 6, Holstein v. Holstein, 152 W.Va. 119 , 160 S.E.2d 177 (1968).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e emphatically return the fundamental principle that a change of custody shall not be ordered unless it be shown that such change would materially promote the welfare of the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lesavich v. Anderson
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.