136 W. Va. 891 - Backus v. Abbot’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably 174 W. Va. 139 - Allen v. State of West Virginia Human Rights Commission (1984), Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corporation (1956)
38 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 Morrison v. Work · Morrison v. Work · Simpson v. Edmiston · Kane v. Walsh · State v. Harman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The facts disclosed by the pleadings in this suit do not establish any urgent necessity for the injunctive relief sought by the plaintiffs or that such relief is necessary to prevent irreparable injury to the property which they claim; and the absence of either of these requisites deprives them of any right to relief by a mandatory injunction. ^ 7 >”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a general rule equity is conversant only with matters involving property and the maintenance of civil rights and will not interfere by injunction with the duties of any department of the government except under special circumstances and when necessary to the protection of property or other rights against irreparable injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Relief by mandatory injunction will be given only where the right of the applicant is clear and the necessity urgent.”
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.