123 W. Va. 696 - Boone v. Boone’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1975 · most notably 133 W. Va. 9 - Calhoun County Bank v. Ellison (1949), 130 W. Va. 676 - State Ex Rel. Nutter v. MacE (1947)
25 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 112 W. Va. 98 - State Road Commission v. County Court of Kanawha County · Evans v. Johnson · Roberts v. Flatt · Mayer v. Adams · 93 W. Va. 133 - Doak v. Smith
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““County courts are of limited jurisdiction in the sense that their powers are prescribed by Section 24, Article VIII, West Virginia Constitution, but in all matters of probate, the appointment of the fiduciaries named in said Section 24, and the settlement of their accounts, they are courts of record, vested with judicial powers and unlimited in their jurisdiction where, in regular session, jurisdiction of both subject matter and parties is had.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every claim against the estate of a decedent shall be itemized, accompanied by proper vouchers, and verified by the affidavit of the creditor * * *. The vouchers for a judgment or decree shall be an abstract thereof. (Emphasis supplied)”
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.