129 W. Va. 344 - Cottle v. Cottle’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1985
1 federal appellate · 20 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 68 W. Va. 15 - Reynolds v. Reynolds · Hall v. Hall · 124 W. Va. 331 - Crouch v. Crouch · 73 W. Va. 330 - Huff v. Huff · 127 W. Va. 744 - Hurley v. Hurley
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Effect of cohabitation after knowledge of adultery; lapse of five y ears. — When the suit is for divorce for adultery, the divorce shall not be granted, if it appear that the parties voluntarily cohabited after the knowledge of the fact of adultery, or that it occurred more than five years before the institution of the suit, or that it was committed by the procurement or connivance of the plaintiff.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McKee v. McKee
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.