State v. Worrell’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2012
23 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 128 W. Va. 198 - Taylor v. Taylor · 138 W. Va. 116 - State Ex Rel. Hinkle v. Skeen · 136 W. Va. 380 - Sidney C. Smith Corp. v. Dailey · 136 W. Va. 891 - Backus v. Abbot · Yates v. Taylor County Court
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon decreeing the dissolution of a marriage, and also upon decreeing a divorce ... the court may make such further decree as it shall deem expedient, concerning the estate and maintenance of the parties, or either of them....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For the purpose of making effectual any order or decree provided for in this section the court may make any order or decree concerning the estate of the parties, or either of them, as it shall deem expedient (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Lack of jurisdiction may be raised for the first time in this court, ... and may be taken notice of by this court on its own motion.”
2 later decisions 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.