Sheffield v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2006
24 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 Towne v. Eisner · State Ex Rel. Attorney-General Ex Rel. Owens v. Chaplin · Thayer v. . Thayer · Wheeler v. . Cobb · Bank of Colerain v. Cox
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Residence' is sometimes synonymous with `domicile.' But when these words are accurately and precisely used, they are not convertible terms. Thayer v. Thayer, 187 N.C. 573 , 122 S.E. 307 . `Residence' simply indicates a person's actual place of abode, whether permanent or temporary; `domicile' denotes a person's permanent dwelling place, to which, when absent, he has the intention of returning. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It was well said by the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes that ‘a word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.’ This aphorism finds abundant exemplification in the word ‘residence,’ which has many shades of meaning, ranging all the way from mere temporary presence to the most temporary abode. ‘Residence’ is sometimes synonymous with ‘domicile.’ But when these words are accurately and precisely used, they are not convertible terms. ‘Residence’ simply indicates a person’s actual place of abode, whether permanent or temporary; ‘domicile’ denotes a person’s permanent dwelling-place, to which, when absent, he has the intention of returning. Hence, a person may have his residence in one place, and his domicile in another, (citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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