125 W. Va. 824 - Brown v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably 156 W. Va. 707 - Woodall v. Laurita (1973), 193 W. Va. 32 - State Ex Rel. Allen v. Bedell (1995)
1 federal appellate · 23 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 Block v. Hirsh · Lockerty v. Phillips · Marcus Brown Holding Co. v. Feldman · Edgar Levy Leasing Co v. Siegel 810 West End Ave · United States v. Johnson
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.
“‘[t]he right of prohibition shall lie as a matter of right in all cases of usurpation and abuse of power[.]”
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.