191 W. Va. 378 - Metzner v. Metzner’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably 192 W. Va. 683 - White v. Williamson (1994), 195 W. Va. 646 - Statler v. Dodson (1995)
29 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 172 W. Va. 158 - LaRue v. LaRue · 183 W. Va. 451 - Whiting v. Whiting · 341 Pa. Super. 76 - Flynn v. Flynn · 183 W. Va. 528 - Bettinger v. Bettinger · 184 W. Va. 744 - Wood v. Wood
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contingent and other future earned fees which an attorney might receive as compensation for cases pending at the time of a divorce should ... be considered as marital property for purposes of equitable distribution. However, only that portion of the fee that represents compensation for work done during the marriage is “marital property” as defined by our statute. Because the ultimate value of a contingent fee case remains uncertain until the ease is resolved, a court must retain continuing jurisdiction over the matter in order to determine how to effectuate an equitable distribution of this property.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where an attorney has been discharged, without fault on his part, from further services in a suit just begun by him under a contract for payment contingent upon successful prosecution of the suit, his measure of damages is not the contingent fee agreed upon, but the value of his services rendered; and in the absence of evidence of the reasonable value of such services, no recovery can be had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Equitable distribution under W.Va.Code, 48-2-1, et seq., is a three-step process. The first step is to classify the parties' property as marital or nonmarital. The second step is to value the marital assets. The third step is to divide the marital estate between the parties in accordance with the principles contained in W.Va. Code, 48-2-32.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.