196 W. Va. 239 - Carter v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 208 W. Va. 325 - In Re Emily B. (2000), 198 W. Va. 298 - State v. Head (1996)
152 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1204 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738A · 42 U.S.C. § 11601 (International Child Abduction Remedies Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 451 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on 196 W. Va. 178 - Burgess v. Porterfield · 194 W. Va. 263 - Burnside v. Burnside · 196 W. Va. 223 - In Interest of Tiffany Marie S. · 183 W. Va. 641 - State v. Edward Charles L. · 185 W. Va. 613 - In the Interest of Carlita B.
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing the findings of fact and conclusions of law of a circuit court supporting a civil contempt order, we apply a three-pronged standard of review. We review the contempt order 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.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because of the extraordinary nature of supervised visitation, such visitation should be ordered when necessary to protect the best interests of the children. In determining the best interests of the children when there are allegations of sexual or child abuse, the circuit court should weigh the risk of harm of supervised visitation or the deprivation of any visitation to the parent who allegedly committed the abuse if the allegations are false against the risk of harm of unsupervised visitation to the child if the allegations are true.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In visitation as well as custody matters, we have traditionally held paramount the best interests of the child.”
5 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.