130 W. Va. 676 - State Ex Rel. Nutter v. MacE’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably 135 W. Va. 90 - Dye v. Skeen (1950), 142 W. Va. 830 - State Ex Rel. Browning v. Tucker (1957)
30 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 McNally v. Hill · Starcher v. South Penn Oil Co. · 98 W. Va. 419 - Click v. Click · Ex parte Mooney · Ex parte Evans
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The remedy for mere irregularity in the process or mere error in the proceedings of courts of competent jurisdiction is by appeal or writ of error, not by habeas corpus; otherwise if the process or proceedings be void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Thus we have the writ so firmly established in our law that it cannot be repealed or suspended by our State Legislature[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The people ordained that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus should never under any circumstances be suspended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.