138 W. Va. 599 - State Ex Rel. Ralich v. Millsop’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1979
15 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. McCreary v. Major · Booten v. Pinson · Building & Loan Ass'n v. Sohn · State ex rel. Thompson v. McAllister · Malinoski v. D. S. McGrath, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There shall be elected in each district containing a population not exceeding twelve hundred, one justice of the peace, and if the population exceeds that number, two such justices shall be elected therein”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The jurisdiction of justices of the peace shall extend throughout their county; they shall be conservators of the peace and have such jurisdiction and powers in criminal cases as may be prescribed by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“terms of office, powers, duties, and compensation of all public officers and agents, and the manner in which they shall be elected . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marra v. Zink
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.