Dancy v. Dancy’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 1994
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 167 W. Va. 59 - Garska v. McCoy · 182 W. Va. 57 - David M. v. Margaret M. · 158 W. Va. 343 - Hammack v. Wise · 158 W. Va. 964 - Funkhouser v. Funkhouser · Jb v. Ab
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The exercise of discretion by a trial court in awarding custody of a minor child will not be disturbed on appeal unless that discretion has been abused: however, where the trial court's ruling does not reflect a discretionary decision but is based upon an erroneous application of the law and is clearly wrong, the ruling will be reversed on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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