128 W. Va. 290 - Sutton v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 1984 · most notably 130 W. Va. 121 - Bennett v. Neff (1947), Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corporation (1956)
53 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 128 W. Va. 198 - Taylor v. Taylor · 118 W. Va. 308 - Spradling v. Spradling · 104 W. Va. 617 - State v. Beale · 124 W. Va. 163 - Board of Education v. Hartford Fire Insurance · 125 W. Va. 159 - Watkins v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A man may remove from his place of residence and establish a domicile or residence elsewhere, and still own property, have important business or financial connections, leave his investments undisturbed, and even plan for his own burial, in a community in which he lived for a long period of time, without continuing to be a resident of the locality which he has left with the intention of staying away indefinitely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.