119 W. Va. 603 - Morris v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 138 W. Va. 207 - Crawford v. Taylor (1953), 149 W. Va. 421 - State Ex Rel. Heck's, Inc. v. Gates (1965)
34 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 McConiha v. Guthrie · 76 W. Va. 685 - Weil v. Black · 83 W. Va. 186 - Jennings v. McDougle · City of Charleston v. Littlepage · Board of Education v. Holt
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a court is attempting to proceed in a cause without jurisdiction, prohibition will issue as a matter of right, regardless of the existence of other remedies, and regardless of whether or not the objections to the jurisdiction of the trial court have been presented to that court prior to the application for relief here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It appears, therefore, that whether the presence of Morris in Hampshire county was voluntary or in obedience to the citation, his exemption from civil process existed until the necessity for his presence had passed and a reasonable time thereafter * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Duffield““The writ of prohibition shall lie as a matter of right in all cases of usurpation and abuse of power, when the inferior court has not jurisdiction of the subject matter in controversy, or, having such jurisdiction, exceeds its legitimate powers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Bouchelle
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.