30 W. Va. 404 - State v. Irwin’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2008
21 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 People, Ex Rel. v. . Court of Oyer and Term · State v. Frew & Hart · Winslow v. Nayson · State ex rel. Mason v. Harper's Ferry Bridge Co. · In re the case of Yates
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly, the Court had no authority to imprison the defendants [for contempt] until they did an impossible thing.”
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.