Allison v. State Ex Rel. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Thompson v. Thompson (2004), 170 W. Va. 483 - State Ex Rel. Walker v. Giardina (1982)
34 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 Evans v. State · Denny v. State Ex Inf. Brady · State Ex Rel. Ferger v. Circuit Court · Quinn v. Peoples Trust & Savings Co. · LaGRANGE ETC. v. State
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It must first be pointed out that a criminal contempt proceeding is a separate proceeding from the main action out of which it grew. It is in that respect different from a civil contempt proceeding which is filed in and as part of the main action. Therefore, it necessarily follows, a criminal contempt proceeding being a separate proceeding, its jurisdiction is independent of any other cause of action. [ Id. at 500 , 187 N.E. 2d at 570 ].”
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.