155 W. Va. 712 - Shaw v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably 173 W. Va. 526 - White v. Manchin (1984), 157 W. Va. 735 - Dixon v. American Industrial Leasing Co. (1974)
29 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. 290 - Sutton v. Sutton · 111 N.J. Super. 35 - Mercadante v. the City of Paterson · 148 W. Va. 443 - Pettry v. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company · 149 W. Va. 493 - Work v. Rogerson · White v. Tennant
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The important facts in determining the domicile of a person who has more than one residence are the physical character of each, the time spent and the things done in each place, and whether or not there is an intention to return to the original domicile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stalnaker““A change in residence for convenience in working conditions does not, without more, indicate a change in domicile.” Syl. pt. 3, Shaw v. Shaw, 155 W.Va. 712 , 187 S.E.2d 124 (1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stalnaker
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.