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← 16 WVA 443 - Lawrence v. DuBois

Lawrence v. DuBois’s Empirical Analysis

1880

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
2
states following
September 1990
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1990 · most notably Currence v. Ward (1897), Vangilder v. Hoffman (1883)

1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

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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 Sayward v. Carlson · 8 W. Va. 406 - Western Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. Peytona Cannel Coal Co. · Rose & Co. v. Brown · Hawker v. B. &. O. R. R. · Horn v. . Keteltas

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the court has no jurisdiction, except where the land lies.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.