136 W. Va. 914 - Welsh v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2007
3 federal appellate · 12 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 State v. Fredlock · Warner v. Warner · Raymond v. Pointer · Builders' Supply Co. v. Phillips · Denison v. Dawes
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where it appears that a domiciliary personal representative fails or refuses to perform his clear duty of attempting to recover possession of personal property without the jurisdiction of the state wherein he was appointed, the property being claimed by a resident of the state wherein the property is located, the personal representative should be removed from office and another person appointed in his stead by the court having supervision over the administration of the estate.””
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.