176 W. Va. 83 - Moore v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2008
6 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 Argersinger v. Hamlin · 157 W. Va. 417 - State Ex Rel. Hawks v. Lazaro · 159 W. Va. 200 - Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. Doe · 157 W. Va. 590 - State Ex Rel. Lemaster v. Oakley · 160 W. Va. 558 - Smoot v. Dingess
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have consistently stated that a person cannot be found in contempt of court for failure to make court-ordered payments, unless such person had the ability to pay and willfully refused to do so. As indicated in the Syllabus of State ex rel. Canada v. Hatfield, 163 W.Va. 548 , 258 S.E.2d 440 (1979), ‘The remedy of imprisonment for failure to pay child support should not be enforced except where it appears that the defendant is contumacious.’ See also State ex rel. Trembly v. Whiston, 159 W.Va. 298 , 220 S.E.2d 690 (1975); State ex rel. Varner v. Janco, 156 W.Va. 139 , 191 S.E.2d 504 (1972); Ex Parte Beavers, 80 W.Va. 34 , 91 S.E. 1076 (1917).””
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.