Sorrells v. Sorrells’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2018
21 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 10 Ga. App. 544 - Barwick v. Slaughter · Williams v. Williams · Stanfield v. Hursey · Campbell v. Campbell · Grier v. McLendon
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`There must be either the tacit or the explicit intention to change one's domicile before there is a change of legal residence.' [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“legal residence for the purpose of being sued in this state is generally the same county as his or her domicile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here must be a concurrence of actual residence and the intention to remain[.]”
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.