Runner v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 177 W. Va. 742 - Goff v. Goff · 197 W. Va. 415 - McCormick v. Allstate Insurance · 164 W. Va. 358 - Horton v. Horton · 189 W. Va. 459 - Robinson v. McKinney · 185 W. Va. 472 - Wyatt v. Wyatt
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The duty of a parent to support a child is a basic duty owed by the parent to the child, and a parent cannot waive or contract away the child's right to support.”
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.