194 W. Va. 124 - Boyle v. Boyle’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2016
20 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 190 W. Va. 655 - Boyle v. Boyle
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The paramount goal of a divorce proceeding is a just and equitable resolution of the interests and rights of the divorcing spouses. The asserted interests of third parties in marital property are best resolved in legal actions separate and apart from the divorce proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dababnah v. Dababnah“an interest which will outweigh the substantial privacy interests of the divorcing parties.” Boyle v. Boyle, 194 W.Va. 124 , 459 S.E.2d 401, 404 (1995). Under the Boyle rule, courts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fisher v. Fisher
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.