113 W. Va. 628 - Lang v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1960
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 Netograph Manufacturing Co. v. . Scrugham · 113 W. Va. 735 - Wolfe v. Shaw · Jacobson v. Hosmer · Michaelson v. Goldfarb · Palmer v. Rowan
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.
“A non-resident of West Virginia, who voluntarily and without compulsion of law, submits himself to the jurisdiction of a state court, in answer to an indictment therein against him, and who is not at the time a fugitive from justice, is privileged while attending court from service of process in a civil suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Duffield
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.