222 W. Va. 722 - Grose v. Grose’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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.

1. “" 'In divorce actions, an award of attorney’s fees rests initially within the sound discretion of the family ... [court] and should not be disturbed on appeal absent an abuse of discretion. In determining whether to award attorney’s fees, the family ... [court] should consider a wide array of factors including the party’s ability to pay his or her own fee, the beneficial results obtained by the attorney, the parties’ respective financial conditions, the effect of the attorney’s fees on each party’s standard of living, the degree of fault of either party making the divorce action necessary, and the reasonableness of the attorney’s fee request.’ Syllabus Point 4, Banker v. Banker, 196 W.Va. 535 , 474 S.E.2d 465 (1996).” Syllabus, Landis v. Landis, [223] W.Va. [325], 674 S.E.2d 186 (2007).”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Paugh v. Linger · 230 W. Va. 580 - Mary Beth Cochran v. Mark Iams Cochran