Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
December 2015
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 194 W. Va. 263 - Burnside v. Burnside · 167 W. Va. 59 - Garska v. McCoy · 173 W. Va. 200 - Molnar v. Molnar · 190 W. Va. 445 - Wood v. Wood · 178 W. Va. 781 - Roig v. Roig
Most-quoted passages
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“. A review of the record demonstrates that Keenan neither supplied the form nor prepared the appellant's answer to the petition for divorce. Syllabus point 5 of Walden, supra, states: “A plaintiff’s lawyer should not prepare an answer for the defendant in any divorce, regardless of whether tire divorce is uncontested and simple.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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