177 W. Va. 11 - Williams v. Narick’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2012
6 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 28 U.S.C. § 1334
Relies on Pacor Inc. v. Higgins · A.H. Robins Co. v. Piccinin · Wedgeworth v. Fibreboard Corp. · United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · Williford v. Armstrong World Industries, 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ “A writ of prohibition shall lie as a matter of right in all cases of usurpation and abuse of power, when the inferior court has not jurisdiction of the subject matter in controversy, or, having such jurisdiction exceeds its legitimate powers.” Syllabus Point 1, State ex rel. UMWA International Union v. Maynard, 176 W.Va. 131 , 342 S.E.2d 96 (1985).’ Syllabus, Williams v. Narick, 177 W.Va. 11 , 350 S.E.2d 11 (1986).””
2 later decisions 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.