195 W. Va. 224 - Summers v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 194 W. Va. 263 - Burnside v. Burnside · 183 W. Va. 528 - Bettinger v. Bettinger · 190 W. Va. 517 - Ball v. Wills · 184 W. Va. 744 - Wood v. Wood · 187 W. Va. 645 - Smith v. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing challenges to findings made by a family law master that also were adopted by a circuit court, a three-pronged standard of review is applied. Under these circumstances, a final equitable distribution order is reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard; the underlying factual findings are reviewed under a clearly erroneous standard; and questions of law and statutory interpretations are subject to a de novo review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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