176 W. Va. 80 - Tucker v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2009
10 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 162 W. Va. 602 - State v. Frazier · Fewel v. Fewel · 160 W. Va. 610 - Murredu v. Murredu · 161 W. Va. 45 - Cloud v. Cloud · 172 W. Va. 656 - State v. Sheppard
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Phillips v. Phillips, 24 W.Va. 591 (1884), this Court recognized the right of a noncustodial parent to have a hearing on a petition to modify the child custody award made in a former divorce decree. We reaffirm that right and hold that under the due process clause, Article III, Section 10 of the West Virginia Constitution, a parent who files a petition for a change of child custody alleging sufficient grounds to warrant such change, Acord v. Acord, [ 164 W.Va. 562 , 264 S.E.2d 848 (1980)] is entitled to a hearing on the merits of the petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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