124 W. Va. 69 - Baker v. Gaskins’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably 148 W. Va. 742 - State Road Commission v. Ferguson (1964), 196 W. Va. 381 - Bartles v. Hinkle (1996)
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 Perry v. Horn · Hannah v. Bank · Ritchie County Bank v. Bee · 121 W. Va. 633 - Harmon v. Spurlock · Damron v. Ferguson
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.
“* * * Defendants' counsel say that the writ was improvidently awarded because there was no objection or exception to the order upon which it is based. In this regard defendants' position is well taken. To the order, plaintiff, in fact, did not object or except, and this Court is committed to the rule that a writ of error to an order of a trial court, to which no objection or exception has been taken, should not be awarded. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cruikshank“A writ of error to an order by a trial court awarding a peremptory writ of prohibition, to which no objection or exception has been taken, will be discharged as having been improvidently awarded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cruikshank
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.