189 W. Va. 459 - Robinson v. McKinney’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 196 W. Va. 692 - Powderidge Unit Owners Ass'n v. Highland Properties, Ltd. (1996), 192 W. Va. 260 - Johnson v. Nedeff (1994)
51 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 123 Ill. 2d 161 - Blisset v. Blisset · 177 W. Va. 742 - Goff v. Goff · 164 W. Va. 358 - Horton v. Horton · 185 W. Va. 472 - Wyatt v. Wyatt · 176 W. Va. 45 - Kimble v. Kimble
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he authority of the circuit courts to modify alimony or child support awards is prospective only and, absent a showing of fraud or other judicially cognizable circumstance in procuring the original award, a circuit court is without authority to modify or cancel accrued alimony or child support installments.” . Had the circuit court’s basis for rejecting the family law master’s recommendation been incorrect, we would still affirm the ultimate decision as the statute of limitations barred enforcement of those matters between May 1983 and 1988.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]n a judgment, execution may be issued within ten years after the date thereof. Where execution issues within ten years as aforesaid, other executions may he issued on such judgment within ten years from the return day of the last execution issued thereon, on which there is no return by an officer or which has been returned unsatisfied. An action, suit or seme facias may be brought upon a judgment ... within ten years from the return day of the last execution issued thereon on which there is no return by an officer or which has been returned unsatisfied....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The ten-year statute of limitations set forth in W.Va.Code, 38-3-18 [1923] and not the doctrine of laches applies when enforcing a decretal judgment which orders the payment of monthly sums for alimony or child support."”
2 later decisions 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.