158 W. Va. 13 - In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2019
17 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 Anderson v. United States · 10 Cal. 2d 147 - In Re Hatch · 151 W. Va. 644 - In Re Mann · 13 Ill. 2d 586 - In Re Teitelbaum · 14 Ill. 2d 338 - In Re Eaton
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.
“‘ “Section 23, Part E, Article VI of the By-Laws of the West Virginia State Bar imposes upon any Court before which an attorney has been qualified a mandatory duty to annul the license of such attorney to practice law upon proof that he has been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude.” Point 2, syllabus, In the Matter of Mann, 151 W.Va. 644 [ 154 S.E.2d 860 (1967)].’ Syllabus, In re Smith, 158 W.Va. 13 , 206 S.E.2d 920 (1974).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any conduct that is contrary to justice, honesty and good morals.”
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.