218 W. Va. 638 - Howe v. Howe’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Estate of Simmons · 177 W. Va. 734 - National Mutual Insurance v. McMahon & Sons, Inc. · 97 Wash. 2d 203 - Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance v. Wiscomb · 149 W. Va. 246 - Barnett v. Wolfolk
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“instructed lower courts not to refuse to apply foreign law 'unless the foreign law is contrary to pure morals or abstract justice, or unless enforcement would be of evil example and harmful to [West Virginia's] own people.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not take a request to invoke [West Virginia's] public policy to avoid application of otherwise valid foreign law lightly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellant has not demonstrated the strong public policy necessary to avoid application of Ohio law in this matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.