122 W. Va. 639 - Shields v. Romine’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 175 W. Va. 249 - Daily Gazette Co., Inc. v. Canady (1985), Daugherty v. Ellis (1957)
36 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 Humphries v. Davis · Federal Credit Co. v. Zepernick Grocery Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a] court "has inherent power to do all things that are reasonably necessary for the administration of justice within the scope of its jurisdiction.”
4 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.