Welch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2012
14 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 Hart v. United States · Riddoch v. State · State v. Brannan · Carpenter v. . R. R. · 102 W. Va. 663 - Downs v. Lazzelle, Judge
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As generally understood, the phrase ‘municipal corporation’ refers to an organized body, consisting of the inhabitants of a designated area—subdivision of the State, created by the legislature, that is, a legal entity possessing certain delegated powers . . . ”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although the Legislature is authorized to waive the State’s immunity from such liability, its intention to do so should appear by clear and unambiguous language.’’). . Tex. Gov’t Code § 311.034 (”
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.