188 W. Va. 692 - Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 1997
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 161 W. Va. 45 - Cloud v. Cloud · 181 W. Va. 396 - Holley v. Holley · 179 W. Va. 536 - Lowe v. Lowe · 177 W. Va. 380 - Weece v. Cottle
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.
“When a family law master or a circuit court enters an order awarding or modifying child support, the amount of the child support shall be in accordance with the established state guidelines, set forth in 6 W.Va. Code of State Rules §§ 78-16-1 to 78-16-20 (1988), unless the master or the court sets forth, in writing, specific reasons for not following the guidelines in the particular case involved. W.Va. Code, 48A-2-8(a), as amended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[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
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.