122 W. Va. 665 - Christopher v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably 130 W. Va. 147 - State Ex Rel. Department of Unemployment Compensation v. Continental Casualty Co. (1947), 144 W. Va. 346 - Re: The Assessment of Shares of Stock of the Kanawna Valley Bank (1959)
32 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 Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · Chas Steward Mach Co v. Davis · Helvering v. Davis · White v. United States · Charleston & S. Bridge Co. v. Kanawha County Court
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A tax upon all business of the same class, which is uniform as to that kind of business, is not unconstitutional.”
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.