176 W. Va. 45 - Kimble v. Kimble’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 189 W. Va. 459 - Robinson v. McKinney (1993), STATE EX REL. SECRETARY SRS v. Clear (1991)
41 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 167 W. Va. 59 - Garska v. McCoy · Morgan v. Morgan · 125 Cal. App. 2d 154 - Smith v. Smith · Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corporation · 166 Ind. App. 409 - Linton v. Linton
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The execution of consent to the adoption of a child by its custodial parent and the custodial parent’s current spouse is alone insufficient to terminate a noncustodial parent’s decretal obligation to make child support payments.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] decretal child support obligation may not be modified, suspended, or terminated by an agreement between the parties to the divorce decree.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Child support is a right which belongs to the child.”
2 later decisions 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.