White v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
783 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 783 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State v. Wilson (1985), State v. Riddick (1986)
783 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 Rothman v. Rothman · Clark v. Clark · 172 W. Va. 158 - LaRue v. LaRue · Mims v. Mims · Sayland Ex Rel. McLendon v. Sayland
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 783 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision.”
124 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he income, property, and liabilities of each party at the time the division of property is to become effective.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]quitable distribution reflects the idea that marriage is a partnership enterprise to which both spouses make vital contributions and which entitles the homemaker spouse to a share of the property acquired during the relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Smith
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.