Brewer v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2006
6 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 133 W. Va. 403 - Wolford v. Wolford · Westfall v. Westfall · Rhoton v. Rollins · Bickley v. Bickley · 135 W. Va. 554 - Jones v. Jones
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary purposes of a Cross-Bill are to obtain affirmative relief on behalf of the Defendant or Defendants filing such a Bill, and to obtain in the course of one proceeding a full and complete determination of all issues which arise out of or which are connected with the subject matter of the original Bill, (italics added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The restriction as to subject matter extends to the introduction of issues that are not within the scope of the original bill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dodson v. Dodson“which seeks relief against the plaintiff.”
1 later decision 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.