State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 192 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 147 W. Va. 484 - Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co. (1962), 172 W. Va. 312 - State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey (1983)
1 federal appellate · 192 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 135 W. Va. 877 - State v. Epperly · 132 W. Va. 373 - Hereford v. Meek · 138 W. Va. 660 - Vest v. Cobb · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. New Jersey · State v. Harden
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a statute repeals the common law and the statute itself is subsequently repealed, the common law is revived and when a statute which is declaratory of the common law is repealed the common law remains in force for the reason that the statute was an affirmance of the common law.”
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.