116 W. Va. 362 - Howard v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1994
12 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 Johnston v. Hunter · Fleming v. Commissioners · 101 W. Va. 591 - Midland Investment Corp. v. Ballard · 97 W. Va. 615 - State Ex Rel. Collier v. County Court of Mingo County · 67 W. Va. 110 - St. Marys v. Woods
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily, prohibition is invoked by a party or parties interested in a specific matter as to which they are advised that the tribunal concerned is acting in excess or abuse of jurisdiction. But it is not necessary that the petitioner or petitioners for prohibition be directly concerned in the subject matter of the controversy, ‘as every citizen is interested in restraining courts within their appropriate jurisdictions.’ Midland Inv. Corporation v. Ballard, 101 W. Va. 591, 595 , 133 S.E. 316 .” [ 116 W. Va. at 364-65 , 180 S.E. at 530 ]”
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.