138 W. Va. 207 - Crawford v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
227 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 199 W. Va. 12 - State Ex Rel. Hoover v. Berger (1997), 173 W. Va. 64 - Cowie v. Roberts (1984)
227 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 124 W. Va. 486 - White Sulphur Springs, Inc. v. Ripley · 129 W. Va. 722 - State Ex Rel. Cosner v. See · 129 W. Va. 410 - State Ex Rel. Rufus v. Easley · 126 W. Va. 447 - Lake O'Woods Club v. Wilhelm · 119 W. Va. 603 - Morris v. Calhoun
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The writ of prohibition shall lie as a matter of right in all cases of usurpation and abuse of power, when the inferior court has not jurisdiction of the subject matter in controversy, or, having such jurisdiction, exceeds its legitimate powers.”
7 later decisions 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.