152 W. Va. 372 - State v. Bragg’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably 172 W. Va. 312 - State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey (1983), 164 W. Va. 726 - State Ex Rel. Graves v. Daugherty (1980)
36 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 McClaugherty v. McClaugherty · 151 W. Va. 880 - Pozzie v. Prather · 29 W. Va. 732 - Beverlin v. Beverlin · 136 W. Va. 598 - Farley Ex Rel. Flora v. Farley · 131 W. Va. 449 - Holmes v. Clegg
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our decision in this case does nothing to alter our recognition of common-law marriages which are contracted in other states and recognized as valid therein. 'The courts of this state will recognize as valid and will accord legal effect to a common-law marriage created or consummated in another state if common-law marriages are recognized as valid in that state.’”
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.