175 W. Va. 512 - Conner v. Conner’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2018
11 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 172 W. Va. 158 - LaRue v. LaRue · 160 W. Va. 610 - Murredu v. Murredu · 157 W. Va. 866 - Dorsey v. Short · 127 W. Va. 177 - Thacker v. Ferguson · Rowlee v. Rowlee
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Equitable distribution based on homemaker services should be applied prospectively, that is, only to those cases filed after the date of this opinion. Since we have applied the homemaker principles to the present case, we will extend these principles to those cases presently on appeal to this Court where an equitable distribution claim for homemaker services has actually been presented in the lower court.” 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Mitchell“Even though our statute did not originally provide for reasonable notice, it would appear that we considered this requirement to be implicit in the statute.”
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.