179 W. Va. 480 - McGuire v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 2001
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stanley v. Illinois · 170 W. Va. 640 - Anderson's Paving, Inc. v. Hayes · 161 W. Va. 433 - Jms v. Ha · J.M.S. v. H.A. · Lam v. Mlm
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.
“Where a statute ... is technically deficient for constitutional reasons, this Court will apply the remedy and give the statute, wherever possible, an interpretation which will cure its defect and save it from total invalidation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is not our intention to encourage or allow third parties [ (outside of a marriage) ] to initiate paternity actions in such situations.”
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.