108 W. Va. 9 - State v. Scarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1974
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 101 W. Va. 178 - State v. Furr · Cecil v. Commonwealth · State v. Strauder · State ex rel. Wright v. Bennett · Quattlebaum v. Triplett
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.
““[The title] gives a fair and reasonable index to the purposes of the act. Nothing more is required. . . . The language employed in the title of a statute must be construed in its most comprehensive and liberal sense favorable to the validity of the act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“his or her legitimate or illegitimate child or children, under the age of sixteen years * * *.”
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.