State v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2017
9 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 127 W. Va. 481 - Blevins v. State Compensation Commissioner · 137 W. Va. 179 - Bennett v. Bennett · 125 W. Va. 190 - Lancaster v. State Compensation Commissioner · 140 W. Va. 572 - Taylor v. State Compensation Commissioner · Keenan v. Scott
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As soon as the ehent has expressed a desire to employ an attorney, and there has been a corresponding consent on the part of the attorney to act for him in a professional capacity, the relation of attorney and ehent has been established; and all dealings thereafter between them relating to the subject of the employment will be governed by-the rules applicable to such relation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The decision or determination rendered by arbitrators or commissioners, or other private or extrajudicial deciders, upon a controversy submitted to them; also the writing or document embodying such decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“action of the State Compensation Commissioner and of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, in allowance of a claim, [is] an `award'.”
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.