131 W. Va. 475 - Cook v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1973
24 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 Green v. Obergfell · 15 E.H. Smith 353 - Ostrom v. . Greene · Spayd v. Ringing Rock Lodge · 83 W. Va. 355 - Simpson v. Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · 126 W. Va. 874 - Gapp v. Gapp
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court, having no original jurisdiction of this cause and acting only as an appellate court, will not consider nonjurisdictional questions not acted upon by the trial court. * * *. To consider and decide nonjurisdictional questions in this Court, not acted upon by the trial court, would be the assumption of jurisdiction by this Court which it does not possess.”
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.