201 W. Va. 24 - Lang v. Iams’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 196 W. Va. 178 - Burgess v. Porterfield · 123 Ill. 2d 161 - Blisset v. Blisset · 177 W. Va. 742 - Goff v. Goff · 164 W. Va. 358 - Horton v. Horton · 189 W. Va. 459 - Robinson v. McKinney
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An initial child support order is entered for the benefit of the child or children involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he duty owed is from the parent to the child, rather than between the two parents.”
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.