Colley v. Colley’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2000
20 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 White v. White · Tarr v. Tarr · 83 W. Va. 186 - Jennings v. McDougle · Chandler v. Chandler · Martin v. Commonwealth
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cohabitation or matrimonial cohabitation means, in the law of divorce, the permanent or public living together or dwelling together in the marital relation . . . Cohabitation, in its proper meaning in the law of divorce, has reference to a continuing condition and not to an act. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Naugle v. Naugle“With respect however to § 20-98 of the Code prescribing the venue of divorce suits, the word “cohabit” should be given “its literal meaning of having dwelled together under the same roof with more or less permanency” ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buck v. Robertson“as used in the statute [Voluntarily cohabited] should not be restricted to its literal meaning of having dwelled together under the same roof with more or less permanency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yane v. Yane
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.