177 W. Va. 380 - Weece v. Cottle’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 160 W. Va. 610 - Murredu v. Murredu · 161 W. Va. 45 - Cloud v. Cloud · 152 W. Va. 119 - Holstein v. Holstein · 156 W. Va. 351 - Commonwealth Tire Co. v. Tri-State Tire Co. · 158 W. Va. 170 - Peoples Bank of Point Pleasant v. Pied Piper Retreat, Inc.
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.
“[W]e emphatically return the fundamental principle that a change of custody shall not be ordered unless it be shown that such change would materially promote the welfare of the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lesavich v. Anderson“[to] justify a change of child custody, in addition to a change in circumstances of the parties, it must be shown that such change would materially promote the welfare of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.