183 W. Va. 451 - Whiting v. Whiting’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 194 W. Va. 263 - Burnside v. Burnside (1995), 195 W. Va. 384 - Stephen L.H. v. Sherry L.H. (1995)
94 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 2010 · 26 U.S.C. § 2056 · 26 U.S.C. § 2503
Relies on Rothman v. Rothman · 72 N.C. App. 372 - Wade v. Wade · Harper v. Harper · Wade v. Wade · Hoffmann v. Hoffmann
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equitable distribution under W.Va.Code, 48-2-1, et seq., is a three-step process. The first step is to classify the parties’ property as marital or nonmarital. The second step is to value the marital assets. The third step is to divide the marital estate between the parties in accordance with the principles contained in W.Va. Code, 48-2-32.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“W.Va.Code, 48-2-l(e)(l) (1986), defining all property acquired during the marriage as marital property except for certain limited categories of property which are considered separate or nonmarital, expresses a marked preference for characterizing the property of the parties to a divorce action as marital property.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where, during the course of the marriage, one spouse transfers title to his or her separate property into the joint names of both spouses, a presumption that the transferring spouse intended to make a gift of the property to the marital estate is consistent with the principles underlying our equitable distribution statute.”
9 later decisions 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.