White v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2018
12 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 143 W. Va. 674 - Daurelle v. Traders Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · State Ex Rel. Cotonio v. Italo-American Homestead Ass'n · Ulmer v. Falmouth Loan & Building Ass'n · Respess v. . Spinning Co. · 128 Pa. Super. 531 - Henzel v. Patterson Building & Loan Ass'n No. 2
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he public policy of this state [is] ascertained by a consideration of the common law and legislative enactments modifying that law.”
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.