175 W. Va. 521 - Vincent v. Gustke’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2007
4 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 164 W. Va. 112 - Hinkle v. Black · 52 Cal. App. 2d 217 - Zeigler v. Bonnell · In Re the Estate of Suter · Johnson v. Muntz · 174 W. Va. 83 - Harris v. Crowder
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a creditor seeks to sell a family’s home to satisfy the debts of one spouse alone, a whole new dimension is given to the equitable provision in our partition statute that excludes partition when prejudice occurs to another tenant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.