State Ex Rel. West v. McCafferty’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 181 W. Va. 71 - Bishop Coal Co. v. Salyers (1989), Penick v. Ratcliffe (1927)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 Hunt v. Rousmanier's Administrators · School District v. Stone · Daviess v. Fairbairn · Moore v. . Mausert · Coffin v. Landis
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The repeal of a statute shall not revive a statute previously repealed by such statute, nor shall such repeal affect any accrued right, or penalty incurred, or proceedings begun by virtue of such repealed statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rudolph v. Jurgensen“No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nantz v. Nantz
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.