175 W. Va. 461 - Whitmire v. Whitmire’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
December 1995
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 160 W. Va. 610 - Murredu v. Murredu · 162 W. Va. 289 - Dyer v. Tsapis · 171 W. Va. 458 - Fc v. Ivc · F.C. v. I.V.C. · 172 W. Va. 293 - Peremba v. Peremba
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have traditionally held that before conduct of one of the parties to a marriage may be viewed as a cause of the dissolution of the marriage, the conduct must have occurred before the suit to dissolve the marriage has been filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Msp v. Pep
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.